Liver Resection for Neuroendocrine Tumor Liver Metastases Within Milan Criteria for Liver Transplantation.
Andrea RuzzenenteFabio BaganteFrancesca BertuzzoLuca AldrighettiTommaso CampagnaroGiorgio ErcolaniSimone ConciFelice GiulianteAndrea DoreAlessandro FerreroGuido TorzilliGian Luca GraziFrancesca RattiAlessandro CucchettiAgostino M De RoseNadia RussolilloMatteo CiminoPasquale PerriAlfredo GuglielmiCalogero IaconoPublished in: Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract (2018)
In our series, only 12% of patients met Milan criteria, and the 5-year OS after liver resection for this small selected group of patients was comparable with that reported in the literature for patients undergoing LT for NELM within Milan criteria. While LT might be the optimal treatment for patients with unresectable NELM, surgical resection should be the first option for patients with resectable NELM.