General Internal Medicine

Liver Tumors

Questions discussed in this category

Would you anticoagulate an SMV thrombosis caused by malignant obstruction in the setting of metastatic colorectal cancer?

For what duration and is there a preferred anticoagulation agent?

1 Answer available

How do you manage patients with suspected cholangiocarcinoma that presents with biliary obstruction but has repeated negative brushings/biopsies?

Is liquid biopsy helpful? Would you treat if this shows somatic mutation?

2 Answers available

Do you routinely start anticoagulation for a patient with newly diagnosed hepatocellular carcinoma presenting with a portal venous thrombosis?

3 Answers available

How do you explain progression free survival to patients?

5 Answers available

Papers discussed in this category

Blood, 2020 Sep 10

Anticoagulant therapy for splanchnic vein thrombosis: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Blood Adv,

American Society of Hematology 2021 guidelines for management of venous thromboembolism: prevention and treatment in patients with cancer.

Gastrointestinal endoscopy, 2012-01

Polysomy and p16 deletion by fluorescence in situ hybridization in the diagnosis of indeterminate biliary strictures.

Gastrointestinal endoscopy, 2012 Feb

Diagnostic accuracy of conventional and cholangioscopy-guided sampling of indeterminate biliary lesions at the time of ERCP: a prospective, long-term follow-up study.

Journal of thrombosis and haemostasis : JTH, 2024 Oct 21

Splanchnic vein thrombosis: management for the thrombosis specialist.

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