Liver Resection for Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma-Single-Center Experience with 286 Patients Undergoing Surgical Exploration over a Thirteen Year Period.

For complete surgical removal, often extended liver resection in combination with complex vascular or biliary reconstruction is required. However, despite aggressive surgery, tumor recurrence is frequent and long-term oncological results are poor. This indicated that surgery alone is unlikely to make great strides in improving prognosis of patients with iCCA, instead clearly suggesting that liver resection should be incorporated in multimodal treatment concepts.