title: [Experience of surgical resection of 103 hilar cholangiocarcinoma].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To summarize the experience of surgical resection of 103 hilar cholangiocarcinoma.
  
  
  METHODS
  One hundred and three consecutive cases of hilar cholangiocarcinoma who underwent surgical resection at our hospital over the past ten years were reviewed retrospectively. The clinical data and long-term outcome were analyzed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Out of 103 cases, 43 patients underwent radical resection (41.7%), and 60 patients underwent palliative resection. There were 34 patients developed postoperative complications and 8 patients died in hospital. For the radical resection group, the median survival time was 29.9 months and 1-year, 3-year, 5-year survival rate was 69.6%, 42.0%, 20.9%, respectively, which was significant greater than 34.1%, 10.2%, 0 of the palliative resection group (P < 0.05). Over the past five years, 42 cases underwent pre-operative drainage of bile and the rate of combined liver resection reached 53.8%. The tumor radical resection rate has increased to 45.7%, the median survival time have reached 24.7 months (P < 0.05).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Improvement of pre-operative management, intraoperative pathology for resection margin, and combined liver resection may help in increasing the radical resection rate. Radical resection can improve postoperative survival, and produce a satisfactory outcome for patient with hepatic hilar cholangiocarcinoma.
authors.affiliation: Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510080, China. lianglj@medmail.com.cn
authors.forename: Li-jian
authors.initials: LJ
authors.lastname: Liang
authors.forename: Jia-ming
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Lai
authors.forename: Shao-qiang
authors.initials: SQ
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Bao-gang
authors.initials: BG
authors.lastname: Peng
authors.forename: Xiao-yu
authors.initials: XY
authors.lastname: Yin
authors.forename: Di
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Tang
authors.forename: Ming-de
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Lü
authors.forename: Jie-fu
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Huang
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001650:Bile Duct Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D001653:Bile Ducts, Intrahepatic; D018281:Cholangiocarcinoma / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D013505:Digestive System Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D015996:Survival Rate