Aggressive liver resection including major-vessel resection for colorectal liver metastases

Figure 3 Overall survival (A) and disease-free rate (B) in years since a first liver resection. When patients undergoing initial liver resections were divided into those with combined major vessel resection during hepatectomy (continuous lines, n = 16) vs with conventional hepatectomy (broken lines, n = 296), overall survival (panel A, P = 0.02) and disease-free rates (panel B, P < 0.01) were poorer in the combined resection group than in the conventional resection group.