PMID: 15216686Jun 26, 2004Paper

Is liver resection or radiofrequency ablation indicated in breast carcinoma metastases?

Rozhledy v chirurgii : měsíčník Československé chirurgické společnosti
V TreskaB Sůvová

Abstract

Until recently, metastasizing of the breast carcinoma to the liver has been considered the sign of the disease process generalization with a poor therapeutic prognosis. Therefore, the aim of this work was to assess any positive effects of liver resections in cases of patients with metastases with respect to the patients' survival rate and the relapse rate of the disorder. From January 2000 until September 2003, 13 women aged 55.8 years on average (39-71 years of age) underwent surgery in the Surgical clinic of the Faculty Hospital in Plzen for liver metastases of the breast carcinoma. The average period of time from the date of the primary surgery for the breast carcinoma till the breast carcinoma liver metastasis appeared, was 4.3 years (3 months to 9 years). The breast carcinoma liver metastases were solitary in 11 cases and in two cases the metastases were multiple. The authors conducted four right-sided hepatectomies, three segmentectomies, two left-sided lobectomies, three radiofrequence ablations (RFA), one combined surgery--the liver resection and RFA, in total. In seven cases, the histological examination proved a ductal carcinoma and in six cases a lobular carcinoma. Following the surgery, all female patients underwent...Continue Reading

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