The common hepatic artery is one of the final branches of the celiac artery. It supplies oxygen-rich blood to the liver, pylorus, pancreas, and duodenum. It runs on the right inside the lesser sac, a ...

Between 30 and 40 percent of individuals have non-traditional blood circulatory systems in their livers. The most common difference from standard anatomy is an extra artery. If the additional artery ...

HEPATIC-artery catheterization by way of the brachial artery for the treatment of malignant lesions in the liver has recently been revived and expanded. 1 We have had the opportunity to utilize this ...

The liver hilum, which some people know as the porta hepatis or hilum of the liver, is a fissure or opening between two sections, or lobes, of the liver. The liver hilum allows structures including ...

A 42-year-old male patient underwent a living-donor liver transplantation (LDLT) for progressive hepatitis B, cirrhosis with 7 points on the Child-Turcotte-Pugh scale and a model for end-stage liver ...

Ninety-two percent of the 49 patients had complete (8%) or partial (84%) response, and 23 (47%) of the 49 patients were able to undergo resection in a group of patients with extensive disease (73% ...

c-erbB-2 Is of Independent Prognostic Relevance in Gastric Cancer and Is Associated With the Expression of Tumor-Associated Protease Systems PURPOSE: To evaluate the response, time to progression, ...

An international research team reports that more than one third of genetic variants that increase the risk of coronary artery disease (CAD) regulate the expression of genes in the liver. These ...

whether human stem cells (i.e. special types of cells that can renew themselves and develop into many different cell types in the body) are beneficial in reducing death in people with decompensated ...