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- Title
An appraisal of liver and portal vein resection for hepatocellular carcinoma with tumor thrombi extending to portal bifurcation.
- Authors
Wu, C C; Hsieh, S R; Chen, J T; Ho, W L; Lin, M C; Yeh, D C; Liu, T J; P'eng, F K
- Abstract
The role of surgical resection for hepatocellular carcinoma with tumor thrombi involving the major portal vein is controversial because of a high operative risk and poor prognosis. Previously, a resection was performed only when the tumor thrombi were limited to the first branch of the portal vein without extension to the portal bifurcation.
- Publication
Archives of surgery (Chicago, Ill. : 1960), 2000, Vol 135, Issue 11, p1273
- ISSN
0004-0010
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1001/archsurg.135.11.1273