Surgical treatment of hepatic caudate lobe metastases originating from colorectal primaries.

Malignant tumor resection of the hepatic caudate lobe has recently received attention. However, there are few reports about metastatic liver tumor in the caudate lobe from colorectal carcinoma, and its clinical features still remain unknown. In this paper, three patients operated on in our institute and 15 reported cases from the published literature were analyzed in order to reveal clinical features of this disease. Many cases had advanced...