| Abstract: | The Authors present a six years case-report concerning 135 patients operated on colo-rectal carcinoma (82 of them are still followed up). The incidence of hepatic metastases (synchronous and metachronous) has been 30.37% in all. The preoperative ultrasonography has shown an 11% about margin mistake to visualize secondary lesions of liver. They have acknowledged the intraoperative ultrasonography very useful to visualize occult metastases and to guide an exeresis operation. The resectability of hepatic metastases from colo-rectal cancer has been of 12.19%. Synchronous forms have been rarely operable (5.88%) because they are constituted by multiple and disseminated lesions. They have found an higher incidence of operable forms among the metachronous metastases (42.85%), whose average time of appearance from the primary operation has been about 13 months. The operative mortality and the complications following hepatectomy have been null. The average survival time from operation has been over 22 months. Therefore they recognized the importance of a careful follow-up to find precociously operable lesions. |
