Occult hepatic metastases in colorectal carcinoma

作者：I. G. Finlay, Colin S. McArdle · 发表于：British journal of surgery · 年份：1986 · DOI：10.1002/bjs.1800730918 · 被引用次数：236 · 研究领域：Colorectal Cancer Surgical Treatments、Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research、Colorectal Cancer Treatments and Studies

Occult hepatic metastases (OHMs) were detected by ultrasound and/or CT scanning in 17 of 71 (24 per cent) patients undergoing apparently curative resection for colorectal carcinoma. One of the patients with OHMs survived 5 years; in contrast, only 5 of 54 patients without evidence of OHMs at surgery died of disseminated disease. The presence or absence of OHMs at the time of surgery predicts the majority of deaths from disseminated disease following apparently curative resection for colorectal carcinoma.