Background Recent developments in liver surgery include the introduction of laparoscopic
liver resection. The aim of the present study was to review a single institution's 10-year …

Importance In patients with resectable colorectal cancer liver metastases (CRLM), the choice
of surgical technique and resection margin are the only variables that are under the …

Objective: Aiming at avoidance of futile surgery, we have tested whether radiofrequency
ablation (RFA) may be used as first-line treatment in patients with colorectal metastases …

Background Optimal margin width is uncertain because of conflicting results from recent
studies using overall survival as the end-point. After recurrence, re-resection and aggressive …

Background The aim of the authors was to reassess the impact of a positive surgical margin
(R1) after a liver resection for colorectal liver metastases (CLMs) on survival in the era of …

Purpose Laparoscopic liver resection is increasingly used to treat patients with hepatic
tumor. However, during laparoscopic resection, information obtained by palpation using …

Background Data from patients with colorectal liver metastases (CRLM) who received
neoadjuvant chemotherapy before resection were reviewed and evaluated to see whether …

Background The optimal tumor-free margin width remains controversial and may be
inappropriate to investigate without considering differences in the underlying tumor biology …

Background Conditional recurrence-free survival (RFS) probability, that is, the probability of
remaining recurrence-free after a given interval without recurrence, has not been reported …

Background Hepatectomy is recommended as the most effective therapy for liver metastasis
from colorectal cancer (CRCLM). It is crucial to elucidate the prognostic clinicopathological …