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7952400

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
1994-12-20
pubmed:abstractText
A prospective study was conducted on 26 patients for cytoreductive surgery of inoperable hepatocellular carcinoma. These patients underwent cytoreduction with liver resection, cryosurgery, microwave tissue coagulation and/or absolute alcohol injection. In-hospital mortality was 7.7%. The symptomatic relief and quality of survival were excellent. The median survival of patients after cytoreduction was 10.0 months and the survival was much better than those of 26 patients matched by sex, age, tumour size, Child-Pugh grading and Karnofsky scores who received systemic chemotherapy during the same period of the study (log rank test, P = 0.0001). There was no statistical difference between the survival curves of those patients who received (19 patients) and those who did not receive (7 patients) additional treatment by chemotherapy or selective internal radiation therapy after cytoreduction. This suggests that the gained survival benefit could have been derived mainly from the cytoreductive surgery rather than the additional treatments.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
0960-7404
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
3
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
161-6
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1994
pubmed:articleTitle
Cytoreductive surgery for hepatocellular carcinoma.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Surgery, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, New Territories.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article