Surgical treatment of rectal cancer with synchronous hepatic metastases
- Author:
Wang Min
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- From:
Journal of Clinical Hepatology
2012;28(1):17-20
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective To investigate the surgical occasion and approach of rectal cancer with synchronous hepatic metastases.Methods Retrospective analysis was conducted on the clinical data of 32 patients who had been diagnosed as rectal cancer with synchronous hepatic metastases.Results The resectability of hepatic metastasis site from rectal cancer for the patient could be exactly diagnosed by type-B ultrasonic, computer tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) before surgical operation.Neo-adjuvant chemotherapy and targeted therapy would aid a lot in the further filter of patients who had been diagnosed as rectal cancer with synchronous hepatic metastases.Comprehensive therapy which mainly based on surgical was adopted.Conclusion Surgical treatment was still the first choice for the patients with resectable rectal cancer with synchronous hepatic metastases.Appropriate subject-specific comprehensive therapy could improve the disease free survival rate and accumulated survival rate.
