Liver Resection for Hepatocellular Carcinoma: a Multivariate Analysis of Factors Associated with Improved Prognosis. the Role of Clinical, Pathological and Surgical Related Factors

Abstract

The treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma should be both the most radical to obtain the best outcome and to reduce the recurrence's rate, and the most suitable according to the patient's condition, lesion's characteristics and underlying liver disease: because of the large number of factors affecting the outcome of Hcc, unfortunately, we are still far from an agreement upon a group of criteria useful to select the best candidates for liver resection.