Selection Criteria for Safe Hepatectomy for Hepatocellular Carcinoma

University of Milan

Status: Completed

Conditions: Cirrhosis; Hepatectomy; Hepatecellular Carcinoma

Treatments: Procedure: Hepatectomy

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02056041

SafeSurgeryHCC

Details and patient eligibility

About

Selection criteria for safe hepatectomy for HCC are not well established. The aim of this study was the validation of the selection criteria for safe hepatectomy for hepatocellular carcinoma.

Full description

All consecutive patients submitted to hepatectomy for HCC based on the same preoperative selection criteria from our prospectively-maintained liver unit database. Such criteria included the value of bilirubin (BIL), the value of cholinesterases (CHE), the presence of ascites, the presence of esophageal varices, and the rate of residual liver volume.

Enrollment: 336 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 90 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• any patient with HCC submitted to hepatic resection at our Unit in the established frame time

Exclusion criteria

• any patient with missing data or lost at follow-up

Trial design

336 participants in 1 patient group

Hepatectomy for HCC

Description:

Patients submitted to surgery for HCC

Treatment:

Procedure: Hepatectomy