General Internal Medicine

Liver and Pancreas Tumors

Questions discussed in this category

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?

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

3 Answers available

Should we be utilizing prophylactic G-CSF in our patients with intermediate risk of febrile neutropenia due to the COVID-19 pandemic?

Are you placing more weight on patient risk factors such as age >65 or co-morbidities?

2 Answers available

When do you perform HER2 testing in patients with colorectal cancer?

1 Answer 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.

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