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. 2019 Dec 26;17:228. doi: 10.1186/s12957-019-1771-9

Table 2.

The number of patients with liver metastases classified as synchronous vs. metachronous according to the different defining time points.

Time point Synchronous Metachronous
Total Resected Non-resected Total Resected Non-resected
Primary tumour diagnosis/surgery 155 26 129 117 39 78
Three months post-primary tumour diagnosis/surgery 174 29 145 98 36 62
Six months post-primary tumour diagnosis/surgery 186 34 152 86 31 55
Twelve months post-primary tumour diagnosis/surgery 207 39 168 65 26 39