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ReviewTranslational gastroenterology and hepatology2018

Resection for hepatocellular cancer: overpassing old barriers.

Francesco Giovanardi, Quirino Lai, Alessandra Bertacco, Alessandro Vitale

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Review in Translational gastroenterology and hepatology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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5 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. New trends and perspectives in hepatobiliary surgery: preface.Translational gastroenterology and hepatology · 2018
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Francesco GiovanardiGeneral Surgery and Organ Transplantation Unit, Department of Surgery, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
Quirino LaiGeneral Surgery and Organ Transplantation Unit, Department of Surgery, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
Alessandra BertaccoDepartment of Surgery, Oncology and Gastroenterology, Padua University, Padua, Italy.
Alessandro VitaleDepartment of Surgery, Oncology and Gastroenterology, Padua University, Padua, Italy.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Several recent studies have shown that the selection limits commonly used for patients with hepatocellular cancer (HCC) potentially requiring a liver resection (LR) are too restrictive. The present review aims at investigating the studies showing that LR is no longer a treatment suitable only for highly selected patients, but also for patients selectively presenting one-to-more negative factors. Several specific variables have been investigated, none of them showing to be an absolute contraindication for LR: age; single vs. multiple diseases; the dimension of the nodule; hyperbilirubinemia; clinically relevant portal hypertension; Child-Pugh status; macrovascular invasion. As a consequence, LR for the treatment of HCC-on-cirrhosis is a safe and effective procedure not only in "ideal cases", but also for selected patients presenting risk factors. The presence of only one of these factors does not represent an absolute contraindication for LR. On the opposite, the contemporaneous presence of risk factors should contraindicate the procedure. Further studies investigating the "borderline" cases are required, mainly looking at the possible decisive role of laparoscopy in this setting.

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Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer (BCLC)liver failuremini-invasive surgerymodel for end-stage liver disease (MELD)Portal hypertension (PHT)

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PMID30363682
PMCPMC6182022

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