Residual Liver Recurrence Following Hepatic Resection for Solitary Liver Metastasis from Colorectal Cancer

Yuji Inoue, Mamoru Suzuki, Katsutoshi Yoshida, Toru Tezuka, Ken Takasaki

Institute of Gastroenterology, Tokyo Women's Medical College

The factors related to residual liver recurrence following hepatic resection were investigated in 40 patients with solitary liver metastasis from colorectal cancer. There is no significant difference in background factors between 14 patients with residual liver recurrence after hepatic resection and 11 patients with no residual liver recurrence after more than one year. The greater the tumor diameter, the more livers were resected. There is no significnt difference in frequency of residual liver recurrence after surgery among patients with a tumor diameter of less than 2 cm, that of more than 2 cm and less than 5 cm and that of more than 5 cm. Therefore these findings suggest that partial resection is suitable for the choice of the operative procedure because of its satisfactory surgical margin.

Key words
solitary liver metastases of colorectal cance, surgical resection, liver recurrence after hepatic resection

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Yuji Inoue Institute of Gastroenterology, Tokyo Women's Medical College
8-1 Kawada-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 162 JAPAN

Accepted
October 1, 1997

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