Okuda K
Department of Medicine, Chiba University School of Medicine, Japan.
Trop Gastroenterol. 1990 Jul-Sep;11(3):119-29.
With the currently available various imaging procedures, as small a tumor as 1 cm in diameter is detectable. However, such small tumors are detectable only in patients with cirrhosis who frequently develop hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in the Far East, by a regularly scheduled follow-up as generally practiced in Japan and Taiwan. The preoperative assessment of resectability and tolerable size of resection has improved with the modern liver function tests and imaging diagnosis. In this presentation, emphasis will be placed on the diagnosis of localization of a tumor within the liver rather than on the detection of tumors by imaging which has already been extensively documented.
利用当前可用的各种成像程序，直径仅1厘米的小肿瘤也可被检测到。然而，只有在远东地区经常发生肝细胞癌（HCC）的肝硬化患者中，通过日本和台湾普遍实行的定期随访，才能检测到如此小的肿瘤。随着现代肝功能测试和成像诊断技术的发展，术前对可切除性和可耐受切除大小的评估已有改善。在本报告中，重点将放在肝脏内肿瘤定位的诊断上，而不是放在已被广泛记录的成像检测肿瘤上。
