Kenta Baba, Akihiko Oshita, Mohei Kohyama, Satoshi Inoue, Yuta Kuroo, Takuro Yamaguchi, Hiroyuki Nakamura, Yoichi Sugiyama, Tatsuya Tazaki, Masaru Sasaki, Yuji Imamura, Yutaka Daimaru, Hideki Ohdan, Atsushi Nakamitsu
A 72-year-old woman with a sigmoid colon cancer and a synchronous colorectal liver metastasis (CRLM), which involved the right hepatic vein (RHV) and the inferior vena cava (IVC), was referred to our hospital. The metastatic lesion was diagnosed as initially unresectable because of its invasion into the confluence of the RHV and IVC. After she had undergone laparoscopic sigmoidectomy for the original tumor, she consequently had 3 courses of modified 5-fluorouracil, leucovorin, and oxaliplatin (mFOLFOX6) plus cetuximab...
February 14, 2015: World Journal of Gastroenterology: WJG