Progress in Hepatology

Epidemiology of hepatitis C virus - associated hepatocellular carcinoma (K. Kiyosawa). Pathology of early hepatocellular carcinoma (M. Kojiro). Genomic changes and development of hepatocellular carcinoma (S. Kaneko, R. Saeki, K. Kobayashi). Color Doppler energy as a diagnostic modality for small hepatocellular carcinoma (A. Saito). Prospective study of chemoprevention of hepatocellular carcinoma with a Chinese herbal medicine (H. Oka, S. Yamamoto). Chemoprevention of hepatocarcinogenesis by retinoids - basic mechanisms and clinical experiences (H. Moriwaki, Y. Shiratori, M. Okuno, I. Yasuda, Y. Muto). The prevention of hepatocellular carcinoma by method of interferon therapy for chronic type C hepatitis (Y. Arase, H. Kumada). Experience in surgical resection for small hepatocellular carcinoma (J. Yamamoto, T. Kosuge, K. Shimada, K. Sano, S. Yamasaki, T. Takayama, M. Makuuchi). Prognosis of patients with small hepatoma after percutaneous injection of ethanol (M. Tanaka, M. Shimada, N. Ono, Y. Tateishi, Y. Shimauchi, R. Kuromatsu, H. Fukuda, T. Kusaba, S. Yutani, K. Tanikawa). Efficacy of percutaneous acetic acid injection for small hepatocellular carcinoma (K. Ohnishi). Development of percutaneous hot water injection therapy as the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma (T. Yamasaki, A. Kato, Y. Yamaguchi, F. Kurokawa, Y. Yabushita, S. Mizumachi, K. Okita). Outcome of transcatheter arterial embolization for hepatocellular carcinoma (M. Itsubo). The usefulness of proton irradiation for hepatocellular carcinoma: present status and future prospects (Y. Matsuzaki, T. Chiba, J. Shoda, N. Tanaka, T. Okumura, H. Tsuji, Y. Akine). Gene therapy for hepatic tumors - micro-metastasis of colon carcinoma: a review in 1996 (Y. Shiratori, F. Kanai, Y. Hikiba, H. Moriyama, H. Hamada, T. Tanaka, K. Lan, M. Ohashi, M. Matsumara, K. Okano, M. Naito, M. Omata). Summary and future perspectives (K. Kobayashi).