Inoue Kazuto, Takayama Tadatoshi
Third Department of Surgery, Nihon University School of Medicine, 30-1 Ooyaguchikamicho, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo 173-8610, Japan.
Gan To Kagaku Ryoho. 2003 Sep;30(9):1270-5.
Surgery has been the standard treatment modality for patients with hepatocellular carcinoma, however, controversy exists as to 1. which treatment is better for small HCC (surgery versus local ablation), 2. surgical indication for advanced HCC with multiple tumors, tumor thrombus, or extrahepatic metastasis, and 3. indication of liver transplantation. These points were discussed reviewing our results and current papers.