Experience with 150 Liver Resections : Annals of Surgery (original) (raw)
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IWATSUKI, SHUNZABURO M.D.; SHAW, BYERS W. Jr. M.D.; STARZL, THOMAS E. M.D., PH.D.
Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, University Health Center of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Abstract
One hundred fifty liver resections were performed with an operative mortality rate of 4%. Indications for liver resections were 43 primary liver malignancies, 43 metastatic liver tumors, and 64 benign liver diseases. The 3-year actuarial survival rate after treatment of primary liver malignancy was 56%, and that after treatment of metastatic liver tumors was 66%. All but one of 59 patients with benign disease who survived operation were alive without development of late symptoms or complications.
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