When a patient is found to have liver tumors, the doctor prescribes tumor diagnostic tests to be benign or malignant. People who do not have liver tumors but have hepatitis B, C, without other chronic liver disease, often rarely suffer from liver cell carcinoma.
Your father may have previously suffered from chronic hepatitis B virus, with liver tumors for three years, the first thing is to make subclinical diagnosis to determine the nature of liver tumors. According to the principle of simple to complex, from blood tests to imaging diagnostics such as MRI, CT. In the case of unknown tumor properties, the doctor reviews the liver biopsy.
If there is a liver tumor and add chronic diseases, the doctor may appoint an MRI or CT scan to find the typical signs of malignant or benign liver tumors. In case the liver tumor absorbed in the artery, the artery, the discharge of the drug, the vein may be a sign of liver cell carcinoma … The doctor diagnosed the image in collaboration with the clinician to give the best diagnosis.
In case the image is not typical, the patient is performed by the liver biopsy. This is considered the last “gold standard” when testing and diagnostic imaging cannot make clear conclusions.
Doctor Trung examined patients. Artwork: Tam Anh General Hospital
The liver tumor from 3 cm or less can be treated with local liver tumor canceling with high frequency wave or microwave wave if the liver tumor position is allowed. Hepatic surgery can be applied after the doctor reviews factors such as quantity, location, size … of the tumor.
Your father should go to general medical facilities, have enough machines and a team of doctors specializing in the liver to be diagnosed accurately, appropriate treatment.