Review Article

Surgical Treatment of Neuroendocrine Liver Metastases

Table 2

Case series of hepatic resections with ablation performed for neuroendocrine liver metastases.

AuthorYearN undergoing resection/ablationOperative mortality (%)Operative morbidity (%)Symptom control (%)Survival

(1)Mayo et al. [39]2010339NANANA74% at 5 years
(2)Glazer et al. [42]2010172022.1NA77.4% at 5 years
50.4% at 10 years
(3)Strosberg et al. [108]200931NANANA 75% at 5 years; median survival of 103 months
(4)Touzios et al. [27]2005195.2429572% at 5 years
(5)Musunuru et al. [31]200613NANA10083% at 3 years

Some studies [22, 65, 102, 109] are excluded in the tables as the data is not stratified to liver resections and thus no meaningful data can be extracted for liver resections.