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Modified Laparoscopic Anatomic Hepatectomy: Two-Surgeon Technique Combined with the Simple Extracorporeal Pringle Maneuver
Published on: June 16, 2023
Liver resection in the aged (seventy years or older) with hepatocellular carcinoma
N Nagasue1, Y C Chang, Y Takemoto
1Second Department of Surgery, Shimane Medical University, Izumo, Japan.
Background:
Thirty-two patients who were 70 years of age or older underwent hepatic resection in the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma. There were 25 men and 7 women. Age ranged from 70 to 84 years, averaging 74 +/- 3 years (mean +/- SD). Underlying liver diseases were associated in all patients but one, cirrhosis of the liver in 22, and chronic hepatitis in nine.
Methods And Results:
The operative mortality rate within 1 month was 12.5%, and the overall in-hospital death rate was 18.8%. The 5-year survival rate was 17.6% for all patients and 24.3% when six hospital deaths were excluded. The Child's grade was a good predictor for early and late morbidity and death, the 5-year survival rate of patients with Child's class A disease being 30%. Retrospective comparisons were conducted between the current patients and patients younger than 50 years old who had been operated on during the same period: resectability rate, 61.5% versus 57.8%; hospital mortality rate, 18.8% versus 11.6%; and 5-year survival rate, 24.3% versus 48.6%, respectively.
Conclusions:
These results seem to indicate that the treatment policy of hepatocellular carcinoma in the aged should be identical to that in young people.
