title: [Hepatic surgery: 10 year experience at the Salvador Zubirán National Institute of Nutrition].
abstract: Techniques for surgical liver resections have improved in the last years. The results obtained with liver resections in 67 patients with benign and malignant tumors in a referral hospital for liver diseases in Mexico are analyzed retrospectively, with the aim of knowing the results obtained with such problems in our country. For benign diseases we operated on 36 patients with mean age of 45 years (26 were women), we had one operative death. In 31 patients with operations for malignant tumors (16 were primary liver tumors), the mean age was 52 years and 17 were men; there were eight operative deaths. Major hepatic resections are justified, the results are very satisfactory in benign disease; a major proportion of complications have to be accepted in patients with malignant disease; however, the results are good if we realize that those patients will die in few months if the tumor is not removed.
authors.affiliation: División de Cirugía, Instituto Nacional de la Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, México, DF.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Orozco Zepeda
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Mercado Díaz
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Takahashi Monroy
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Prado Orozco
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Chan Núñez
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D006498:Hepatectomy / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods / Q000401:mortality; D006782:Hospitals, Special; D006801:Humans; D008107:Liver Diseases / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D008800:Mexico; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies
vernacular_title: Cirugía hepática: diez años de experiencia en el Instituto Nacional de la Nutrición Salvador Zubirán.