Surgical treatment for giant primary liver cancer:a report of 146 cases / 中国普通外科杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate the effect of surgical treatment for giant primary liver cancer.Methods One hundred and forty-six cases of giant primary liver cancer received surgical treatment in recent 11 years ware analyzed retrospectively. Of them, 99 cases underwent irregular hepatectomy ,28 hemihepatectomy and 4 right hepatic trisegmentectomy .Including 19 cases received secondary resection after preoperative TACE, meanwhile 6 cases were underwent portal venous cancer thrombus extraction, 15 cases received biopsies and DDS only, Interoprative DDS were performed in 105 cases. Result The postoperative complications was 10.3 %, the postoperative mortality was 1.4%.The 1-,3-,5- and 10year survival rates were 56.6 %, 30.2% ,14.4% and 2.1% respectively. Conclusions The main treatment of giant liver cancer is hepatcctomy.Combination with TACE,portal thrombus extraction and DDS can improve the long-term survival.