© Springer-Verlag Italia 2015George H. Sakorafas, Vassileios Smyrniotis and Michael G. Sarr (eds.)Pancreatic Cystic Neoplasms10.1007/978-88-470-5708-1_1 1. Introduction to Pancreatic Cystic Neoplasms George H. Sakorafas1 , Vassileios Smyrniotis2 and Michael G. Sarr3 (1) Department of Surgical Oncology, Saint Savvas Cancer Hospital, Arkadias 19-21,…
Cystic neoplasms Serous cystic neoplasms (SCNs) Mucinous cystic neoplasms (MCNs) Intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms (IPMNs) Uncommon cystic neoplasms Solid pseudopapillary neoplasm Cystic neuroendocrine neoplasms (functional and nonfunctional) Acinar cell cystadenocarcinoma…
MD-IPMNs Ideally, all main-duct and mixed variant IPMNs should be resected (in patients who are good surgical candidates with reasonable life expectancy) BD-IPMN Resection is indicated in the presence of…
© Springer-Verlag Italia 2015George H. Sakorafas, Vassileios Smyrniotis and Michael G. Sarr (eds.)Pancreatic Cystic Neoplasms10.1007/978-88-470-5708-1_7 7. Prognosis and Follow-Up George H. Sakorafas1 , Vassileios Smyrniotis2 and Michael G. Sarr3 (1) Department of Surgical Oncology, Saint Savvas Cancer Hospital, Arkadias 19-21, Athens, 11526,…
NIH system [15] University of Toronto System [16] Current authors Grade Features Grade Hepatic features Grade Immuno-suppression Grade Features 1, Silent Without change in ALT H0 No hepatitis, ALT <2 × ULN…
Without immunoprophylaxis With immunoprophylaxis at infancy Infant of HBsAg(+), HBeAg(+) mother >95 % infected, ≥90 % chronicity ratea among infected infants [6] Vaccine + HBIG → 10 % chronic infection [54] Infant of…
Fig. 12.1 (a) Prevalence of HBsAg, detectable HBV DNA, and HBeAg in the REVEAL-HBV cohort by age. (b) Mean serum levels of HBV DNA and HBsAg among HBsAg seropositives in…
Authors (year) [ref.] Study year Patients Follow-up (median; mo) Antiviral agent after HBIG withdraw (no. of patients) Antiviral agent (HBIG continued; no. of patients) HBV recurrence (%) Buit, 2007 [97]…
Fig. 3.1 (a) Four overlapping open reading frames of hepatitis B virus (HBV) were analyzed. Position: “1p/3preS2” means the nucleotide position is codon 1 in polymerase gene and codon 3…
Fig. 16.1 The life cycle of hepatitis B virus (HBV) Fig. 16.2 Mechanisms of action of NUC and IFN First and Second Generation NUC in Naïve Patients Lamivudine LMV was…
