RT Book, Section
A1 Allard, Marc-Antoine
A1 Adam, René
A2 Morita, Shane Y.
A2 Balch, Charles M.
A2 Klimberg, V. Suzanne
A2 Pawlik, Timothy M.
A2 Posner, Mitchell C.
A2 Tanabe, Kenneth K.
SR Print(0)
ID 1145763937
T1 Colorectal Liver Metastases
T2 Textbook of Complex General Surgical Oncology
YR 2018
FD 2018
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071793315
LK accesssurgery.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1145763937
RD 2024/04/18
AB Colorectal  cancer  (CRC),  the  fourth  most  common  malignancy  worldwide,  remains  by  far  the  first  cause  of  liver  metastases  and  the  first  liver  malignancy  in  Western  societies.1  It  is  estimated  that  about  half  of  these  patients  will  develop  colorectal  liver  metastases  (CLM)  during  the  course  of  disease  (metachronous  liver  metastases),  whereas  15%  to  25%  of  the  patients  already  present  CLM  at  the  time  of  the  diagnosis  (synchronous  liver  metastases).2,3