title: Liver resections for metastases from intraabdominal leiomyosarcoma.
abstract: This paper discusses liver resection for intraabdominal leiomyosarcoma metastases as a therapy for carefully selected patients. Of the 83 hepatectomies performed from 1992 to 1996, five were resections for liver metastases due to intraabdominal leiomyosarcoma, in 3 patients. The surgical indication was single liver metastases, without any evidence of extrahepatic disease. No mortality occurred during surgery and the longest survival was 38 months. We concluded that liver resection for leiomyosarcoma metastases can be performed, allowing a long term survival in an occasional patient.
authors.affiliation: Departament of Surgery of Fundação Faculdade Federal de Ciências Médicas de Porto Alegre (FFFCMPA), University of Paris XI.
authors.forename: A N
authors.initials: AN
authors.lastname: Kalil
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: de Lourdes Pereira
authors.forename: M C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Brenner
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Pereira-Lima
mesh_terms: D000008:Abdominal Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006498:Hepatectomy / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007890:Leiomyosarcoma / Q000401:mortality / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery*; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015996:Survival Rate; D016896:Treatment Outcome