Cancer Treatment Today

It is a fairly rare for benign liver lesions to cause pain and there are no specific guidelines for how to treat such situations. However, the literature contains many reports of laparoscopic partial liver resections for non-cancer diagnosis. In experienced hands, laparoscopic liver resection is a favorable alternative to open resection. Surgical morbidity and mortality and long-term survival after laparoscopic resection  appear to be comparable

Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) is a chronic, liver disease characterized by bile stasis within bile ducts and liver inflammation and fibrosis. It is thought to be an immune mediated, progressive disorder that eventually develops into liver cirrhosis, portal hypertension and hepatic decompensation, in the majority of patients. How does one follow the activity of this disease? Guidelines do not recommend routine MRCP or ERCP to screen for screening

Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) is a chronic, cholestatic liver disease characterized by inflammation and fibrosis of both intrahepatic and extrahepatic bile ducts. It is thoughtto be an immune mediated, progressive disorder that eventually develops into cirrhosis, portal hypertension and hepatic decompensation, in the majority of patients. Guidelines do not recommend routine MRCP or ERCP to screen for chalngiocarcinoma or hepatocellular carcinoma.