[The diagnosis and surgical treatment of metastatic liver tumors]

The authors have carried out 48 resections of liver for it's metastatic injure. The most frequent source of metastatic spread in liver occurred to be colorectal cancer. Right liver lobe was found to be injured by the metastatic tumour more often. After liver resections of various value the frequency of complications was 37.5%, postoperative lethality--2.1%. Presented data evidence the necessity of widening recommendations to perform radical operative interventions in patients with solitary and single metastases in liver.