[Surgical treatment of hepatic metastases]

The authors analysed the possibilities of surgical treatment of hepatic secondaries in a group of 69 patients where resection of the liver was performed. Most frequently secondaries of carcinoma of the large intestine and rectum were resected (40 patients). As to different operations in 12 patients left-sided lateral lobectomy; right-sided lateral lobectomy was performed in 8, segmentectomy in 26 and in 23 wedge-shaped resection. During the postoperative period local complications developed in 5 patients and two were treated on account of pneumonia. The mean period of survival in patients operated on account of secondaries of the large intestine and rectum was 19 months.