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Imaging Evaluation of Tumor Response

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Book cover Liver Malignancies

Part of the book series: Medical Radiology ((Med Radiol Diagn Imaging))

Abstract

With advances in imaging and surgical techniques, the number of patients undergoing partial hepatectomies for primary or secondary liver tumors have significantly increased during the past decade. Improvements in imaging modalities have contributed to early detection, precise localization and characterization of liver lesions (Meun 1998). Refinements in surgical techniques have reduced both the morbidity and the mortality rates from elective hepatectomy and have allowed surgeons to consider more extensive resections. Nevertheless, in most patients with liver tumors, surgery is not an appropriate option. Patients with primary hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) are often poor surgical candidates, because of the lack of hepatic reserve resulting from coexisting liver cirrhosis or the presence of multiple lesions at the time of the diagnosis (Lencioni and Also, in most patients with hepatic metastases resec-tion is not feasible because the lesion is adjacent to critical vascular structures or too many segments are involved that resection would not leave enough liver tissue for survival (Steele and Ravikumar 1989).

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Bartolozzi, C., Cioni, D., Donati, F., Granai, G., Lencioni, R. (1999). Imaging Evaluation of Tumor Response. In: Bartolozzi, C., Lencioni, R. (eds) Liver Malignancies. Medical Radiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-58641-5_30

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