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ReviewOncotarget2018

Tourniquet-ALPPS is a promising treatment for very large hepatocellular carcinoma and intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma.

Victor López-López, Ricardo Robles-Campos, Robeto Brusadin, Asunción López-Conesa, Álvaro Navarro, Julio Arevalo-Perez, Pedro Jose Gil, Pascual Parrilla

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Review in Oncotarget, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
2.4field-weighted citation impact, top 12% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 23 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Review
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  5. Liver growth prediction in ALPPS - A multicenter analysis from the international ALPPS registry.Liver international : official journal of the International Association for the Study of the Liver · 2022
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  6. Article
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  8. Resection for intrahepatic cholangiocellular cancer: new advances.Translational gastroenterology and hepatology · 2018
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Victor López-LópezVirgen de la Arrixaca Clinic and University Hospital, IMIB, Murcia, Spain.
Ricardo Robles-CamposVirgen de la Arrixaca Clinic and University Hospital, IMIB, Murcia, Spain.
Robeto BrusadinVirgen de la Arrixaca Clinic and University Hospital, IMIB, Murcia, Spain.
Asunción López-ConesaVirgen de la Arrixaca Clinic and University Hospital, IMIB, Murcia, Spain.
Álvaro NavarroVirgen de la Arrixaca Clinic and University Hospital, IMIB, Murcia, Spain.
Julio Arevalo-PerezDepartment of Radiology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA.
Pedro Jose GilVirgen de la Arrixaca Clinic and University Hospital, IMIB, Murcia, Spain.
Pascual ParrillaVirgen de la Arrixaca Clinic and University Hospital, IMIB, Murcia, Spain.
Instituto Murciano de Investigación Biosanitaria · ES

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

When very large hepatocellular carcinomas (HCCs) and intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (IHCCs) with insufficient future liver remnants are treated using associating liver partition and portal vein ligation for staged hepatectomy (ALPPS), the outcome is often poor. We therefore tested the efficacy of a modified version of that technique, tourniquet-ALPPS. A review of the literature examining outcomes of HCC and IHCC patients treated with ALPPS revealed the incidences of morbidity ≥ III and postoperative mortality to be respectively 20.7% and 16.1% among HCC patients and 50% and 45.4% among IHCC patients. In the present case series, in which HCC and IHCC patients were treated with tourniquet-ALPPS, median tumor size was 100 mm (range: 70-200 mm). After surgical stage I, there was no morbidity, no mortality and the median future liver remnant had increased at day 7 by 76%. In surgical stage II, 100% of tumors were resectable (8 right trisectionectomies, 5 with inferior vena cava resection). Two patients experienced serious morbidity ≥ IIIB and 1 patient died (11%). One- and 3-year overall survival was 75% and 60%, respectively. Thus tourniquet-ALPPS appears to be an effective alternative to classical ALPPS for the treatment of patients with HCC or IHCC.

Indexed as

ALPPShepatocarcinomaintrahepatic cholangiocarcinomatwo-stage hepatectomy

Identifiers

PMID29963276
PMCPMC6021344
OpenAlexW2808102840

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