Background: A new staging system for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) has recently been reported from Italy (CLIP classification). It combines Child-Pugh staging with tumour criteria: tumour morphology, ...
Correspondence to Professor Shiv Kumar Sarin, Hepatology, Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences, New Delhi, Delhi 110070, India; shivsarin{at}gmail.com Objectives Beta-blockers and endoscopic ...
Department of Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China Correspondence to Dr J J Y Sung, Institute of Digestive Disease, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin ...
Correspondence to Professor Min Dai, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College , Beijing ...
Albumin is a multifunctional protein with pleiotropic activity that is produced almost exclusively in the liver. From many studies in several patient groups, it has become clear that in patients with ...
Correspondence to Shumei Song, Departmental of GI Medical Oncology, U.T.MD. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA; ssong{at}mdanderson.org; Jaffer A Ajani ...
Objective Fibroblast growth factors (Fgfs) are key orchestrators of development, and a role of Fgfs in tissue repair is emerging. Here we studied the consequences of inducible loss of Fgf receptor ...
Correspondence to Professor Jingmei Jiang, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, ...
The authors have produced a unique study of 624 patients with ulcerative colitis for they have achieved a 100% follow-up of all these patients admitted to the Radcliffe Infirmary or to the Churchill ...
Correspondence to: Dr J Tack Center for Gastroenterological Research, KU Leuven, 49 Herestraat, 3000 Leuven, Belgium; jan.tack{at}med.kuleuven.be The accommodation reflex is an important mechanism of ...
Correspondence to Professor Guy Boeckxstaens, Department of Chronic Diseases, Metabolism, and Ageing, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; guy.boeckxstaens{at}kuleuven.be Objective We evaluated the histamine 1 ...
Objective Hepatic steatosis accompanying obesity is a major health concern, since it may initiate non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and associated complications like cirrhosis or cancer.