Surgical approach to liver metastasis with hepatic hilar invasion.
We present a surgical procedure for liver metastases with hepatic hilar invasion, which was originally developed for hilar bile duct cancer. A 64-year-old man with 8 metastatic nodules from colon cancer and hepatic hilar invasion received this technique, and lived for more than 5 years without any restriction in his life. The authors recommend this procedure for those patients in order to preserve their quality of life.
Minagawa
Masami
M
Department of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Japan. minagawa-thy@umin.ac.jp
Makuuchi
Masatoshi
M
Takayama
Tadatoshi
T
Kokudo
Norihiro
N
D002780:Cholestasis, Intrahepatic / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D003082:Colectomy; D003110:Colonic Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D018572:Disease-Free Survival; D004621:Embolization, Therapeutic; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006498:Hepatectomy / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008099:Liver / Q000473:pathology; D008111:Liver Function Tests; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009361:Neoplasm Invasiveness / Q000473:pathology; D011169:Portal Vein / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D012086:Reoperation; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014463:Ultrasonography