Aggressive liver resection including major-vessel resection for colorectal liver metastases
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Resection for Colorectal Liver Metastases
Colorectal cancer is the third most frequent cancer in the Western world. About half of the patients develop synchronous or metachronous metastases. The liver is the most common site of such metastases and thus hepatic metastatic disease is a significant socio-medical problem. If it is not treated, the median patient survival is only some months. Surgical resection is the treatment of choice fo...
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عنوان ژورنال: World Journal of Hepatology
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1948-5182
DOI: 10.4254/wjh.v1.i1.79