Prognostic Impact of Anatomical Resection Vs. Non-anatomical Resection for HCC (ARversusNAR)

University of Milan

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Patients Affected by Hepatocellular Carcinoma; Overall Survival; Disease-Free Survival

Treatments: Procedure: anatomical liver resection; Procedure: Non-anatomical liver resection

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01236989

AR vs NAR

Details and patient eligibility

About

Prognostic impact of AR vs NAR

Full description

Whether anatomical is better than non anatomical resection for HCC is still debated. This prospective randomized study aimed to address which approach is better in terms of patients prognosis.

Enrollment: 120 estimated patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• patient affected by single HCC
• patients in whom liver resection is indicated
• HCC without vascular invasion and/or thrombosis

Exclusion criteria

• multinodular HCC
• metastatic disease
• spontaneous tumor rupture

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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120 participants in 2 patient groups

Anatomical resection

Experimental group

Treatment:

Procedure: anatomical liver resection

Non-anatomical resection

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Procedure: Non-anatomical liver resection