The results of 122 hepatic resections in 112 patients with hepatocellular carcinoma are described. The type of liver resection performed was selected according to the patient's liver function. Forty-nine patients underwent anatomic resections, including 1 trisegmentectomy, 5 lobectomies, 11 segmentectomies, and 32 subsegmentectomies; the remaining 63 patients had nonanatomic resections. The 1-, 2-, and 3-year survivals after liver resection for all patients, taking into account one operative and one hospital death (0.9% each), were 92.4%, 85.0%, and 78.9%, and disease-free survivals at 1, 2, and 3 years were 68.6%, 46.2%, and 32.6%, respectively. Twenty-one repeat hepatic resections (17.2% of the total of 122 resections) were performed with no hospital mortality. Cumulative survival from the time of repeat hepatectomy in these 21 patients was 84.2% and 56.3% at 1 and 2 years, respectively. Among the factors that may affect survival or disease-free survival, the absence of vascular invasion (p < 0.05) and intrahepatic metastases (p < 0.01) were significantly related to the disease-free survival time. A good outcome was obtained after liver resection in 112 patients with hepatocellular carcinoma through appropriate choice of the type of resection, careful follow-up, and a vigorous surgical approach for recurrence.
Summary Heterogeneity of DNA content in multiple hepatocellular carcinomas (HCCs) was investigated by flow cytometry in 62 tumours from 26 patients who had undergone surgical treatment for multiple synchronous HCCs. Heterogeneity of DNA content was defined (a) when tumours had a different DNA ploidy pattern or (b) when the difference in the DNA index of the aneuploid clone was more than 0. Keywords: hepatocellular carcinoma; DNA content; heterogeneity; flow cytometry Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common malignancy in Africa and Asia and is associated with a poor prognosis. Surgical resection is the first choice of treatment. However, the frequent development of multiple tumours in patients with chronic viral hepatitis and/or cirrhosis hinders curability. Thus, it is thought important to understand the biological behaviour and clonal origin of different tumours in cases of multiple HCC for evaluation of clinical stage, prediction of post-operative outcome and choice of suitable therapeutic treatments.Flow cytometric analysis of cellular DNA content has become an increasingly important clinical tool for the evaluation of tumour biological behaviour. Quantitative DNA analysis reflects the total chromosomal content of tumour cells. In terms of the cell nuclear DNA content of HCC, it has been reported (Fujimoto et al, 1991;Chiu et al, 1992) that an aneuploid DNA pattern indicates poor prognosis. With regard to the heterogeneity of the DNA ploidy pattern, HCC has been reported to be mostly homogeneous within the same tumour (Kuo et al, 1987;Nagasue et al, 1993;Ng et al, 1994). However, there have been few studies on the heterogeneity of DNA content among multiple synchronous HCCs. In the present study, we investigated tumour DNA heterogeneity in patients with multiple synchronous HCCs. MATERIALS AND METHODSSixty-two tumours from 26 patients who had undergone surgical treatment for multiple HCCs at the First Department of Surgery, Shinshu University Hospital, between October 1989 and August Received 5 July 1996 Revised 2 January 1997 Accepted 13 January 1997 Correspondence to: Seiji Kawasaki, First Department of Surgery, Shinshu University School of Medicine, 3-1-1 Asahi, Matsumoto 390, Japan 1994, were studied. Two patients each had four tumours, six patients had three tumours and the remaining 18 patients had two tumours each. There were 17 men and nine women with a mean age of 64.5 ± 6.3 (s.d.) years (range, 54-82 years). In all patients, histological examination of the non-cancerous tissue demonstrated chronic hepatitis, precirrhosis or cirrhosis. Three patients were positive for hepatitis B virus, 22 patients for hepatitis C virus and one patient for both viruses. The tumour size ranged from 0.6 to 6.0 cm with an average of 2.4 ± 1.1 cm (mean ± s.d.). These 62 tumours in the present study were considered to be of potentially multifocal origin as they did not meet the following criteria of intrahepatic metastasis: multiple HCCs were diagnosed as metastatic in origin from a single tumour (a) when the...
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