Abstract
Introduction: The authors present their own results of repeat liver resection for metastatic colorectal cancer. Material: The Surgical Clinic of the 1st Faculty of Medicine and FTN in Prague in the years 1996-2008 re-operated on 17 patients with metastases CRC.
Results:Morbidity in the whole group of patients operated on for liver metastases CRC is 26.3%, mortality 2.6%. Five-year survival of 35%.
Five-year disease-free interval of 22%. The median follow up 2.2 years.
The disease progression occurred during follow-up in 60% of cases. The progression in the liver only in 25% of which in the main segment at 34.5%.
Seventeen patients (16.4%) were operated repeatedly, 14 patients 2 and 3 patients 3 times, a total of 20 replicate was carried out by radical resection. Conclusion: The results of both short and long term in patients undergoing primary versus. repeated liver resection are comparable.