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1Klinik für Abdominal- und Transplantationschirurgie, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover.
Langenbecks Archiv Fur Chirurgie. Supplement II, Verhandlungen Der Deutschen Gesellschaft Fur Chirurgie. Deutsche Gesellschaft Fur Chirurgie. Kongress
|January 1, 1989
Abstract:
From 1981 to 1988, 13 patients with liver metastasis and 7 patients with primary hepatic tumors underwent a second hepatic resection for tumor recurrence. A second resection was feasible even after an extensive first resection. Several patients experienced tumor recurrence shortly after the first resection, but lived a long time after the second resection. The actuarial survival after a second resection for colorectal metastasis was similar to that after the first resection. Therefore a second resection for tumor recurrence is reasonable and may prove especially important in individual situations.