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Synchronous Hepatocellular Carcinoma and Cholangiocarcinoma in an Alcohol-Induc...
Borges,Ana; Caseiro-Alves,Filipe; Antunes,Célia; Donato,PauloAbstract During evaluation for Liver Transplantation (LT) a 59-year-old patient with alcohol-induced liver cirrhosis presented with two small liver nodules with imaging features consistent with Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC). At separate times, both were successfully submitted to transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) with doxorubicin, allowing the patient to keep meeting LT criteria. The first nodule treated e...
Perfusion Magnetic Resonance as a Biomarker for Sorafenib-Treated Advanced Hepa...
Campos,Marta; Candelária,Isabel; Papanikolaou,Nickolas; Simão,Adélia; Ferreira,Carlos; Manikis,Georgios C.; Caseiro-Alves,FilipeBackground: Sorafenib is the currently recommended therapy in patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Among the several biomarkers available for the evaluation of the therapeutic response and prognosis, there is perfusion magnetic resonance imaging (p-MRI) that, through measurement of the vascular permeability unit (ktrans), may retrieve useful information regarding the microvascular properties o...