Table I. Series of liver resection for HCC.

Author, year of publication	Study Period	Number of patients	Cirrhosis (%)	Diameter <5 cm (%)	In-hospital mortality (%)	1 year (%)	3 years (%)	5 years (%)
Results after curative surgical resection of HCC in Asian series
Nagasue, 1993	1980–90	229	77	75	11	80	51	26
Kawasaki, 1995	1990–93	112	68	83	2	92	79
Takenada, 1996	1985–93	280	52		2	88	70	50
Chen, 1997	1983–94	382	45	40	4	71	52	46
Makuuchi, 1998	1990–97	352			<1	92	73	47
Poon, 2001	1989–94	136	50	29	13	68	47	36
	1994–99	241	43	45	2.5	82	62	49
Shimozawa, 2004	1987–2001	135	71	100	2	95	73	55
Results after curative surgical resection of HCC in Western series
Franco, 1990	1983–88	72	100	60	7	68	51
Vauthey, 1995	1970–92	106	33	17	6			41
Nagorney, 1996		120	22		8	82	44	31
Llovet, 1999	1989–97	77	100	75		85	62	51
Fong, 1999	1991–98	154	65	24	4.5	81	54	37
Belghiti, 2002	1990–99	300	82	47	6	81	57	37
Ercolani, 2003	1983–99	224	100	81	3	83	63	42
Cha, 2003	1990–2001	164	40		4	79	51	40