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Patients with cholangiocarcinoma have a poor prognosis at the time of diagnosis. Surgery offers the best chance for cure particularly with hepatic lobectomy, extended lobectomy, or liver transplantation with margin-negative resection of the tumors. However, only 20-40% of patients were candidate for curative resection partly because of the local invasiveness of the tumor. Preoperative imaging studies including US with color Doppler, multiphasic helical CT, and MRI and MRCP are commonly used for pretreatment evaluation of these patients to identify those who are surgical candidates and for planning surgery. The purpose of this exhibit is to use state-of-the-art imaging techniques to show: 1) hepatic arterial and portal venous anatomy in the hepatoduodenal ligament and the hilar fissure, 2) the relationship between these vessels and the tumor, 3) the criteria of vascular involvement and 4) the criteria of resectability and non-resectability.
1. To define hepatic arterial and portal venous anatomy in the hepatoduodenal ligament that are important for surgical planning of hilar and suprapancreatic cholangiocarcinoma 2. To use state-of-the-art imaging studies to define resectability and non-resectability criteria of hilar and suprapancreatic cholangiocarcinoma
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Faria MD, S,
Imaging Approach to Resectability Evaluation of Suprapancreatic and Hilar Cholangiocarcinoma. Radiological Society of North America 2003 Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, November 30 - December 5, 2003 ,Chicago IL.
http://archive.rsna.org/2003/3105235.html
