title: [Role of surgery in the treatment of liver metastases from gastric cancer].
abstract: The development of liver metastases is a fatal event for gastric cancer patients, and remains a major cause of cancer-related death. Many studies showed that the 5-year survival rate is as low as about 10% in these cases. The management of liver metastases from gastric adenocarcinoma remains controversial. The different therapeutic modalities used are surgery, radiofrequency ablation, hepatic arterial infusion and palliative gastrectomy. Surgery is a good indication for single liver metastasis of gastric carcinoma less than 5 cm and not associated with another extra-hepatic metastasis. In this article we discuss the role of surgery in the treatment of liver metastases from gastric cancer.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510080, China. YLH@medmail.com.cn.
authors.forename: Yulong
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: He
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma; D006801:Humans; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary / Q000601:surgery*; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D015996:Survival Rate