Hepatic resection of solitary HCC in the elderly: A unique disease in a growing population
Zarour LR, Billingsley KG, Walker BS, Enestvedt CK, Orloff SL, Maynard E, Mayo SC. Hepatic resection of solitary HCC in the elderly: A unique disease in a growing population. The American Journal Of Surgery 2019, 217: 899-905. PMID: 30819401, DOI: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2019.01.030.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsSolitary hepatocellular carcinomaPrognostic nutritional indexHepatic resectionElderly patientsUnique diseaseLow prognostic nutritional indexMedian Child-Pugh scoreTumor size 5Child-Pugh scoreGrade III complicationsHalf of patientsRecurrence-free survivalSolitary HCCExtrahepatic recurrenceProspective databaseR0 resectionIntrahepatic recurrenceMajor hepatectomyMedian survivalOverall survivalViral hepatitisLow morbidityMedian ageClinicopathologic dataClinicopathologic differences