Clinical Case Database / Category: Patient Management
Right hepatectomy
Publication details
Mustafa Farhad, MBChB, CABS, MRCS, Bassam Alkari, MD, FRCS
Foundation Years Journal, volume 6, issue 4, p.34 (123Doc Education, London, April 2012)
Abstract
A 70 year old female patient with a past surgical history of a right hemicolectomy three years earlier for a caecal adenocarcinoma Dukes' B (PT2, N1, M0), who was under 6-monthly follow up in the oncology clinic with an annual surveillance computed tomography (CT) scan was found to have a new lesion in the right lobe of the liver. She was symptom free at the time of presentation.
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Authors
Mustafa Farhad, MBChB, CABS, MRCS
Core Trainee 2 in Surgery
Bassam Alkari, MD, FRCS (Corresponding author)
Consultant HPB Surgeon & Honorary Senior Lecturer
Department of Surgery
Aberdeen Royal Infirmary
Aberdeen
b.alkari@nhs.net
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