Surgical approach to liver metastasis with hepatic hilar invasion

Masami Minagawa; Masatoshi Makuuchi; Tadatoshi Takayama; Norihiro Kokudo

Surgical approach to liver metastasis with hepatic hilar invasion

Hepatogastroenterology. 2004 Sep-Oct;51(59):1467-9.

Authors

Masami Minagawa¹, Masatoshi Makuuchi, Tadatoshi Takayama, Norihiro Kokudo

Affiliation

¹ Department of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Japan. [email protected]

PMID: 15362778

Abstract

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.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Cholestasis, Intrahepatic / pathology
Cholestasis, Intrahepatic / surgery
Colectomy
Colonic Neoplasms / pathology
Colonic Neoplasms / surgery*
Diagnosis, Differential
Disease-Free Survival
Embolization, Therapeutic
Follow-Up Studies
Hepatectomy / methods*
Humans
Liver / pathology
Liver Function Tests
Liver Neoplasms / pathology
Liver Neoplasms / secondary*
Liver Neoplasms / surgery
Male
Middle Aged
Neoplasm Invasiveness / pathology
Portal Vein / pathology
Portal Vein / surgery
Postoperative Complications / pathology
Postoperative Complications / surgery
Reoperation
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
Ultrasonography