Resection for Multiple Hepatocellular Carcinomas (HCC)

University of Milan

Status: Completed

Conditions: Multiple Tumors; Cirrhosis; Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Treatments: Procedure: hepatic resection

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01387061

multipleHCC

Details and patient eligibility

About

Surgical resection in patients with multiple hepatocellular carcinomas (HCC) remains controversial. The aim of this study was to investigate the outcome of a consecutive cohort of patients resected for multiple HCC, without macrovascular invasion, in order to identify clinically reliable parameters to select patients for surgery.

Enrollment: 87 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• patients with multiple HCC without macrovascular invasion on liver cirrhosis

Exclusion criteria

• macrovascular invasion;
• normal liver;
• distant or lymphnodes metastasis

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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87 participants in 1 patient group

hepatic resection

Experimental group

Treatment:

Procedure: hepatic resection