Fabrizio Di Benedetto, Paolo Magistri, Francesca Marcon, Olivier Soubrane, Felipe Pedreira Mello, Joao Santos Coelho, Andre Renaldo Fernandez, Samuele Frassoni, Vincenzo Bagnardi, Ashish Singhal, Fernando Rotellar, Roberto Hernandez-Alejandro, Ruslan Alikhanov, Eduardo de Souza M Fernandes, Francois Cauchy, Paolo Muiesan, Stefano Di Sandro, Hugo Pinto Marques
INTRODUCTION: Involvement of the inferior vena cava (IVC) and hepatic veins (HV) has been considered a relative contraindication to hepatic resection for primary and metastatic liver tumors. However, patients affected by tumors extending to the IVC have limited therapeutic options and suffer worsening of quality of life due to IVC compression. METHODS: Cases of primary and metastatic liver tumors with vena cava infiltration from 10 international centers were collected (7 European, 1 US, 2 Brazilian, 1 Indian) were collected...
April 11, 2024: International Journal of Surgery