[The surgical treatment of liver metastasis of carcinoid tumors].
Liver metastasis of carcinoid tumors from the digestive tract are rare entities, with characteristic symptoms and slow evolution. Symptomatic metastases may justify surgical resection. Herein, we report a series of nine patients, who underwent 14 hepatic resections (6 major and 8 minor), which was radically operated in 71%. The postoperative mortality was zero and the morbidity was 7%. Mean follow-up was 82 month (median 75 months) and global survival rate was 89%. Two patients are in complete remission. Our experience suggest that surgical hepatic resection, when feasible, is efficient and associated with prolonged survival despite a high recurrence rate.
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Service de chirurgie viscérale (Professeur C. Huguet), centre hospitalier Princesse-Grace, avenue Pasteur, 98000 Monaco, France. thierry.roth@insel.ch
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D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002276:Carcinoid Tumor / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D005770:Gastrointestinal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009017:Morbidity; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D011379:Prognosis