[Surgical therapy of liver metastases secondary to colorectal neoplasms].
Of the therapeutic aids currently available for the treatment of liver metastases, surgical treatment, when possible, has acquired an irreplaceable role. The exact criteria needed to establish a correct indication still have to be established. Various factors have been examined so far: number, site, dimensions of the metastases and features of the primary tumour whose prognostic importance does not lend itself to unequivocable interpretation. Personal experience of a series of 11 surgically treated cases seems to confirm that of the parameters analysed, the tumour-host relationship remains the most important prognostic factor.
Ospedale Civile di Breno, Divisione Chirurgica, USL n. 37, Vallecamonica, Brescia.
P G
PG
Capretti
R
R
Pellegrino
C
C
Montalto
A
A
Simonetti
G
G
Taverniti
D
D
Lovotti
R
R
Cazzaniga
G
G
Marcolli
D000368:Aged; D015179:Colorectal Neoplasms; D006498:Hepatectomy; D006801:Humans; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000556:secondary / Q000601:surgery*; D008875:Middle Aged; D011379:Prognosis
Considerazioni sulla terapia chirurgica delle metastasi epatiche secondarie a neoplasia colo-rettale.