Avaliação das margens cirúrgicas e do tipo de borda tumoral nas ressecções hepáticas por metástase de câncer colorretal e seu impacto na mortalidade e recidiva / Evaluation of surgical margins and the type of tumor growth pattern in colorectal liver metastases resection and its impact on mortality and recurrence

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IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

24/05/2012

RESUMO

INTRODUCTION: Approximately 50% of patients with colorectal cancer have liver metastases and hepatectomy is the therapeutic procedure of choice. Surgical margin is an ever-recurring discussed prognostic factor, because there is no consensus of the minimum required distance between the metastatic nodule and the liver section line. Some authors reported surgical margin larger than 1 cm as a better prognosis factor ensuring longer survival rates and lower recurrence. However, other studies showed similar outcomes among patients with surgical margins larger than 1 cm, narrow margins and even microscopically affected ones. These controversies led the idea that other biological factors may be involved in the pathophysiology of recurrence. Therefore, it is valuable to assess the relationship between surgical margins of liver resection for colorectal cancer metastases with survival and recurrence. OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the surgical margins size and tumors growth pattern of colorectal liver metastases and its correlation with local recurrence and survival. METHODS: A retrospective study based on review of medical records of 91 patients undergoing resection of colorectal liver metastases during the period between January 2000 and December 2009. In addition, we undertook a detailed pathologic analysis of each pathological specimen with record of the closest surgical margins and tumors growth pattern classification as pushing or infiltrative. RESULTS: There was no statistical difference in recurrence rates and overall survival time between positive or negative margins, as well as no difference between the margins of 1cm width or more with subcentimeter margins. The disease-free survival of patients with microscopically positive margins was significantly lower than patients with negative margins (p = 0.002). Multivariate analysis identified infiltrative tumor growth pattern as a risk factor for recurrence (p=0.05). Disease-free survival was significantly lower in patients with infiltrative growth pattern compared to tumors with expansive margins (p = 0.05). CONCLUSIONS: Colorectal liver metastases resection with negative margins, regardless of width, has no influence on recurrence (hepatic or extrahepatic), neither on patient survival. The infiltrative tumor growth pattern type was a risk factor for recurrence

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análise de sobrevida câncer colorretal colorectal neoplasms hepatectomia hepatectomy metástase neoplasm metastasis neoplasm recurrence local pathology surgical patologia cirúrgica recidiva recidiva local de neoplasia recurrence survival analysis

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