Department of Surgery, San Gerardo Hospital- University of Milano Bicocca, Italy.
World J Surg Oncol. 2012 Aug 3;10:157. doi: 10.1186/1477-7819-10-157.
The prognosis of patients with liver metastases from gastric cancer (LMGC) is dismal, and little is known about prognostic factors in these patients; so justification for surgical resection is still controversial. Furthermore the results of chemotherapy for these patients are disappointing. The purpose of this study was to review recent outcomes of hepatectomy for LMGC and to determine the suitable candidates for surgery, assessing the surgical results and clinicopathologic features. Moreover we compare these results with those obtained with alternative treatments.
胃转移瘤患者的预后较差,关于这些患者的预后因素知之甚少;因此,手术切除的合理性仍存在争议。此外,这些患者的化疗结果令人失望。本研究旨在回顾胃转移瘤肝切除术的近期结果,并确定适合手术的患者,评估手术结果和临床病理特征。此外,我们将这些结果与其他治疗方法的结果进行比较。