Liver Cancer

Part I. Liver Cancer

1. Applications of Positron Emission Tomography in Liver Imaging: An Overview
Amir H. Khandani

2. Localized Fibrous Tumor of the Liver: Imaging Features
Thomas Moser, Tereza S. Nogueira

3. A Radial Magnetic Resonance Imaging Method for Imaging Abdominal Neoplasms
Maria I. Altbach

4. Liver: Helical Computed Tomography and Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Yuji Baba, Yasuyuki Yamashita, Kazuo Awai, Koichi Kawanaka

Part II. Resectable Liver Cancer

5. Selection of Patients for Resection of Hepatic Colorectal Metastases: 18F-Fluorodeoxyglucose/Positron Emission Tomography
Rebecca Auer, Yuman Fong

6. Ultrasonography During Liver Surgery
Guido Torzilli

Part III. Unresectable Liver Cancer

7. Intraoperative Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Radiofrequency Ablation of Hepatic Tumors
Oliver F. Bathe, Houman Mahallati

8. Surgically Unresectable and Chemotherapy-Refractory Metastatic Liver Carcinoma: Treatment with Yttrium-90 Microsphere Followed by Assessment with Positron Emission Tomography
Ching-Yee Oliver Wong

9. Unresectable Liver Metastases from Colorectal Cancer: Methodology and Prognosis with Radiofrequency Ablation
Junji Machi

Part IV. Hepatocellular Carcinoma

10. Screening with Ultrasonography of Patients at High-Risk for Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Thrombocytopenia as a Valid Surrogate of Cirrhosis
Sheng-Nan Lu, Jing-Houng Wang, Kwong-Ming Kee, Po-Lin Tseng

11. Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Contrast-Enhanced Sonography
Byung Ihn Choi, Se Hyung Kim

12. Focal Liver Lesion: Nonlinear Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound Imaging
Vincenzo Migaleddu, Giuseppe Virgilio

13. Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Bachir Taouli

14. Expression of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor in Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Correlation with Radiologic Findings
Masayuki Kanematsu, Richard C. Semelka, Shinji Osada

15. Detection of Small Hepatic Lesions: Superparamagnetic Oxide-Enhanced Diffusion-Weighted T2 FSE Imaging
Shigeru Kiryu, Kuni Ohtomo

16. Diagnosis of Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Multidetector-Row Computed Tomography and Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Hiromitsu Onishi, Takamichi Murakami, Hironobu Nakamura

17. Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Effect of Injection Rate/Injection Duration of Contrast Material on Computed Tomography
Tomoaki Ichikawa, Tsutomu Araki

18. Detection of Combined Hepatocellular and Cholangiocarcinomas: Enhanced Computed Tomography
Akihiro Nishie, Kengo Yoshimitsu

19. Hepatocellular Carcinoma and Adenomatous Hyperplasia (Dysplastic Nodules): Dynamic Computed Tomography and a Combination of Computed Tomography and Angiography
Kenichi Takayasu

20. Hepatocellular Cancer in Cirrhotic Patients: Radiological Imaging
Francesca Lodato, N. Davies, D. Yu, Andrew K. Burroughs

21. Treatment of Hepatocellular Carcinoma with Thalidomide: Assessment with Power Doppler Ultrasound
Chiun Hsu, Chiung-Nien Chen, Ann-Lii Cheng

22. Perfusion Scintigraphy with Integrated Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography/Computed Tomography in the Management of Transarterial Treatment of Hepatic Malignancies
Timm Denecke, Bert Hildebrandt, Enrique Lopez-Hänninen

23. Postoperative Interferon Alpha Treatment of Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Expression of p48 Using Tissue Microarray
Hui-Chuan Sun

24. Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Overexpression of Homeoprotein Six1 as a Marker for Predicting Survival
Kevin Tak-Pan Ng, Kwan Man

25. Hepatocellular Carcinoma: KiSS-1 Overexpression as a Prognostic Factor
Katharina Schmid, Isabella Mosberger, Fritz Wrba

26. Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Prognosis Using Hepatoma-Derived Growth Factor Immunohistochemistry
Hideji Nakamura, Kenya Yoshida, Yasuhiko Tomita

27. Hepatitis C Virus-Related Human Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Predictive Markers Using Proteomic Analysis (Methodology)
Yasuhiro Kuramitsu, Kazuyuki Nakamura

Part V. Metastases

28. Liver Metastases from Colorectal Cancer: Ultrasound Imaging
Søren R. Rafaelsen

29. Preclinical Liver Metastases: Three-Dimensional High-Frequency Ultrasound Imaging
Kevin C. Graham, Lauren A. Wirtzfeld, James C. Lacefield, Ann F. Chambers

30. Colorectal Liver Metastases: 18F-Fluorodeoxyglucose-Positron Emission Tomography
Stéphanie Truant, Damien Huglo, François-René Pruvot

Part VI. Biliary Cancer

31. Biliary Cystic Tumors: Clinicopathological Features
Yasuni Nakanuma, Hiroko Ikeda, Yasunori Sato, Kenichi Harada, Koichi Nakamura, Yoh Zen

32. Cholangiocarcinoma: Intraductal Sonography
Kazuo Inui, Hironao Miyoshi, Junji Yoshino

33. Extrahepatic Bile Duct Carcinoma: Role of the p53 Protein Family
Alexander I. Zaika, Seung-Mo Hong

34. Extrahepatic Bile Duct Carcinoma: Mucin 4, a Poor Prognostic Factor
Michiyo Higashi, Shugo Tamada, Kohji Nagata, Masamichi Goto, Suguru Yonezawa

35. Hilar Cholangiocarcinoma: Photodynamic Therapy and Stenting
Marcus Wiedmann, Joachim Mössner, Helmut Witzigmann

Part VII. Splenic Cancer

36. Splenic Metastases: Diagnostic Methods
Eva Compérat, Frédéric Charlotte

Keywords: Biomedicine, Cancer Research, Oncology, Surgical Oncology, Nursing, Radiotherapy