Affiliation:
1. Klinik für Allgemein- und Transplantationschirurgie, University Hospital Essen, Germany
2. Institut für Medizinische Informatik, Biometrie und Epidemiologie, University of Essen, Essen, Germany
Abstract
Abstract
Background
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) arising in normal liver parenchyma is rare and the outcome after hepatectomy is not well documented.
Methods
Between June 1998 and September 2003, 33 patients without viral hepatitis underwent resection for HCC in a non-cirrhotic, non-fibrotic liver. Data were analysed with regard to operative details, pathological findings including completeness of resection, and outcome as measured by tumour recurrence and survival.
Results
Twenty-three major hepatectomies and ten segmentectomies or bisegmentectomies were performed. After potentially curative resection, 19 of 29 patients were alive at a median follow-up of 25 months, with calculated 1- and 3-year survival rates of 87 and 50 per cent respectively. Survival was significantly better after resection of tumours without vascular invasion (3-year survival rate 89 versus 18 per cent; P = 0·024). Disseminated recurrence developed in nine of 29 patients, leading to death within 28 months of operation in all but one of the nine.
Conclusion
These data justify hepatic resection for HCC arising in non-cirrhotic, non-fibrotic liver without underlying viral hepatitis. Liver transplantation is rarely indicated because the outcome is good after resection of tumours without vascular infiltration, whereas vascular invasion is invariably associated with diffuse extrahepatic recurrence.
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
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