Hepatectomy

Study findings from Z. Morise et al broaden understanding of hepatectomy

Published in Medical Imaging Week, May 24th, 2008

According to a study from Japan, "We had previously reported that using CT during angiography as a preoperative evaluation improves the detecting rate of minute (less than 10mm) metastases and non-recurrent rate in the liver. We here evaluate the impact of CT during angiography on the survival after putative curative liver resection in our series."

"During the period between 1990 and 2000, single detector helical CT was used for preoperative examination. There were 85 patients who underwent the examination before hepatectomy for colorectal metastases. Among them, there were 37 patients who underwent preoperative evaluating CT during angiography, and 48 who did not. The...

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Source: Medical Imaging Week (2008-05-24)

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