© 2005 European Society for Medical Oncology
Reply to the Letter to the Editor on Severe hepatic sinusoidal obstruction and oxaliplatin-based chemotherapy in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer: a real entity?, by M. Sebagh, M. Plasse, F. Lévi & R. Adam (Ann Oncol 2005; 16: 331)
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We are pleased to learn that another group also involved for several years in the study of neoadjuvant treatment of colorectal liver metastases share many of our views on the development of hepatic vascular lesions induced by oxaliplatin-based chemotherapy. The letter of Sebagh et al. raises several interesting questions about the histological interpretation of the hepatic lesions. In the planning phases of the study, the participating pathologists reviewed together more than half of the slides and reached a consensus
1 Division of Clinical Pathology and 2 Division of Digestive Surgery, University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland; 3 Service of Surgery, Hôpital Cochin, Paris, France 4 Service d'Anatomie Pathologique, Hôpital Cochin, Paris, France
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