Is Surgical Treatment Effective or Contraindicated in Patients with Colorectal Cancer Liver Metastases Exhibiting Extrahepatic Metastasis?
Fumitoshi HirokawaKoji KomedaMitsuhiro AsakumaTetsunosuke ShimizuSyuji KagotaAtsushi TomiokaKazuhisa UchiyamaPublished in: Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract (2021)
In patients with CRLM with EHM (liver + one organ), gross curative resection is necessary when surgical treatment is contemplated, and resection of liver metastases should be performed in patients with CRLM with smaller and fewer tumors (e.g., H1).