It is not rare that two-stage hepatectomy for multiple bilobar colorectal liver metastases (CLM) be left incomplete because of disease progression or technical reasons. One-stage hepatectomy seems a feasible and safe alternative, however, long-term results are lacking. This study aims to provide evidence that one-stage hepatectomy compelling tumor exposure provides adequate long-term results with low risk of local recurrences.
Eligibility Criteria The prospectively recruited cohort of patients herein analysed is the result of a policy for which those patients considered resectable and presenting 4 or more lesions, bilobar CLM were systematically approached in a one stage operation. Patients were considered unresectable once there was concomitance of more than 3 lung metastases, diffuse peritoneal carcinomatosis, and/or extra-hilar lymph node metastasis. Outcome measures The primary outcome was the feasibility on an intention-to-treat basis. To this purpose we studied the ratio between the number of patients surgically explored and those who effectively received resection. The secondary outcome was the safety of the procedure. To this purpose we studied morbidity, mortality, amount of blood loss, rate of blood transfusions, and postoperative trend of liver function tests. The tertiary outcome measure was the reliability of the procedure from an oncological standpoint. For this purpose we studied the following: 1. the rate of true local recurrence (cut-edge) after a minimum follow-up of 6 months; 2. the long-term follow-up, analysing the overall survival (survival after surgery), time to recurrence (survival without recurrence), and time to liver recurrence (survival without liver recurrence). 3. the overall survival compared with that based on an intention-to-treat criterion also including the outcome of those patients who met the inclusion criteria but resulted unresectable on exploration.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
58
Intraoperative ultrasound (IOUS) criteria for tumor-vessel relations let maximizing the preservation of the hepatic vascular skeleton. Contact between colorectal liver metastases and a major intrahepatic vessel is not by itself a criteria for vessel resection: tumor exposure is not contraindicated. If resection of a hepatic vein (HV), resection of the liver parenchyma drained by that vein is considered or not based on color-flow IOUS findings (hepatofugal blood flow in the feeding portal branch, evidence or not of communicating veins between adjacent HVs, evidence or not of accessory HVs). Parenchymal transection is performed under intermittent clamping by the Pringle maneuver. Drains are always inserted and a chest tube is inserted in patients undergoing thoracophrenolaparotomy.
Humanitas Cancer Center
Rozzano, Milano, Italy
feasibility on an intention-to-treat basis
Time frame: at the time of surgical intervention
safety of the procedure
Peroperative morbidity and mortality as classified according with Dindo-Clavien classification (see ref.); Amount of intraoperative blood loss and blood transfusions.
Time frame: At 30 and 90 postoperative days
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