Kwong Wah Hospital

2 ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN JoVE

Cancer Research

Non-Invasive PET/MR Imaging in an Orthotopic Mouse Model of Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Kel Vin Tan^*1,2, Xinxiang Yang^*3, Chung Ying Chan², Jingjing Shi¹, Hing-Chiu Chang⁴, Keith Wan-Hang Chiu^1,5, Kwan Man³

¹Department of Diagnostic Radiology, School of Clinical Medicine, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, ²Department of Oncology, MRC Oxford Institute for Radiation Oncology, University of Oxford, ³Department of Surgery, School of Clinical Medicine, HKU-SZH & LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, ⁴Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, ⁵Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Kwong Wah Hospital

Here, we present a protocol to create orthotopic hepatocellular carcinoma xenografts with and without hepatic artery ligation and perform non-invasive positron emission tomography (PET) imaging of tumor hypoxia using [¹⁸F]Fluoromisonidazole ([¹⁸F]FMISO) and [¹⁸F]Fluorodeoxyglucose ([¹⁸F]FDG).

Medicine

Techniques of Laparoscopic Right Posterior Sectionectomy: Glissonian Approach and a Parenchymal Transection Technique

Ada Sze Man Yip¹, Kai Chi Cheng¹, Kit Man Ho¹, Ka Man Chan¹

¹Department of Surgery, Kwong Wah Hospital

Here, we present a protocol to perform laparoscopic right posterior sectionectomy, focusing on two key aspects: the intrahepatic Glissonian approach for inflow control and a parenchymal transection technique using an ultrasonic surgical aspirator.