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Table 2.

Summary of 117 surgical treatments of hepatic metastases in 100 patients

Surgical treatment	Frequency (%)
Hemihepatectomy	23 (20%)
Left	12 (10%)
Right	9 (8%)
Extended	2 (2%)
Partial resection^a	46 (39%)
RFA alone	30 (26%)
Combined treatment^b	13 (11%)
RFA and resection	11 (9%)
RFA and right portal vein ligation	2 (2%)
None^c	5 (4%)
Total	117 (100%)

^aPartial resection comprises metastasectomies and segmentectomies

^bRFA and right portal ligation was combined in two patients with bilobar liver metastases to achieve hypertrophy of the left liver segments, making a secondary hemihepatectomy possible. In one patient, portal vein ligation alone was attempted to achieve the same, but this patient developed extrahepatic metastatic disease

^cNo surgical treatment was undertaken in five patients because of diffuse intrahepatic metastases in three and peritoneal carcinomatosis in two patients. However, one patient with diffuse metastases underwent combined RFA and resection of his bilobar metastases 7 months after his explorative laparotomy and chemotherapy treatment