Long-term outcomes after hepatectomy of huge hepatocellular carcinoma : A single-center experience in China

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BACKGROUND: Currently, hepatectomy remains the first-line therapy for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). However, surgery for patients with huge (>10 cm) HCCs is controversial. This retrospective study aimed to explore long-term survival after hepatectomy for patients with huge HCC.

METHODS: The records of 188 patients with pathologically confirmed HCC who underwent curative hepatectomy between 2007 and 2017 were reviewed; patients were divided into three groups according to tumor size: huge (>10 cm; n = 84), large (5-10 cm; n = 51) and small (<5 cm; n = 53) HCC. Kaplan-Meier analysis was used to assess overall survival (OS) and disease-free survival (DFS), and log-rank analysis was performed for pairwise comparisons among the three groups. Risk factors for survival and recurrence were analyzed using the Cox proportional hazard model.

RESULTS: The median follow-up period was 20 months. Although the prognosis of small HCC was better than that of huge and large HCC, OS and DFS were not significantly different between huge and large HCC (P = 0.099 and P = 0.831, respectively). A family history of HCC, poor Child-Pugh class, vascular invasion, diolame, pathologically positive margins, and operative time ≥240 min were identified as independent risk factors for OS and DFS in a multivariate model. Tumor size (>10 cm) had significant effect on OS, and postoperative antiviral therapy and postoperative complications also had significant effects on DFS.

CONCLUSIONS: Huge HCC is not a contraindication of hepatectomy. Although most of these patients experienced recurrence after surgery, OS and DFS were not significantly different from those of patients with large HCC after resection.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2019

Erschienen:

2019

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:18

Enthalten in:

Hepatobiliary & pancreatic diseases international : HBPD INT - 18(2019), 6 vom: 01. Dez., Seite 532-537

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Fang, Qiang [VerfasserIn]
Xie, Qing-Song [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Jiang-Ming [VerfasserIn]
Shan, Shen-Liang [VerfasserIn]
Xie, Kun [VerfasserIn]
Geng, Xiao-Ping [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Fu-Bao [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Hepatocellular carcinoma
Journal Article
Prognosis
Risk factors
Surgical resection

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Date Completed 27.04.2020

Date Revised 27.04.2020

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.hbpd.2019.09.001

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM301512833