Yasuhiko Kubo

TL;DR: The clinical features of 57 autopsied cases of intrahepatic bile duct carcinoma including 28 cases of the peripheral type (cholangiocarcinoma in the narrow sense) and 29 cases ofThe hilar type are described in comparison with those of hepatocellular carcinoma, with a review of the literature on the clinicopathological aspects.

TL;DR: The clinicopathologic features of 26 cases of hepatocellular carcinoma surrounded by a grossly distinct capsule‐like fibrous tissue were studied; the tumor was relatively well differentiated and the capsule was the product of slow expanding growth.

TL;DR: Postmortem angiography of the liver in 50 patients with HCC suggests that arterio-portal shunts are the result of the special vasculature in HCC and are highly diagnostic when accompanied by other angiographic changes.

TL;DR: Five cases of hepatocellular carcinoma in whom diagnosis was made when the tumor was relatively small are described, and in 2 cases, serum alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) strted to rise sharply, which enabled early detection and surgical removal of the tumor.

TL;DR: Hepatocellular carcinoma associated with cirrhosis and HCC developing in a noncirrhotic liver may have differing pathogeneseses, and an inverse correlation between the degree of fibrosis and grade of anaplasia shows the more advanced the fibrosis, the less anaplastic the cancer.