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9730387

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:dateCreated
1998-11-3
pubmed:abstractText
In the past 20 years, thanks to the early detection of hepatocellular carcinomas (HCCs), good perioperative care, the evaluation of functional liver reserve, preoperative portal embolization and the improvement in surgical techniques such as intraoperative ultrasonography, the surgical resection of HCC has become very safe. We have performed 367 hepatectomies on 352 patients since 1990 with a surgical mortality, hospital mortality, blood transfusion rate and 5-year survival rate of 0.27, 0.82, and less than 10 and 47.4%, respectively. Our standard method for selecting surgical procedures and perioperative care resulting in low blood transfusion rates and almost no mortality are described. Since 1990, ethanol injection for HCC ablation has been extensively used in Europe and Japan, but results are poorer than with surgical intervention. Therefore, in patients with small HCCs and good liver function, the first choice treatment should not be ethanol injection, but surgical resection.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Aug
pubmed:issn
0172-6390
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
45 Suppl 3
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1267-74
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1998
pubmed:articleTitle
Hepatic resection for hepatocellular carcinoma -- Japanese experience.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan. makuuchi-tky@umin.u-tokyo.ac.jp
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't