An approach improving long-term outcome of surgery for hepatocellular carcinoma: Analysis of 113 patients surviving more than five years

A total of 113 patients with pathologically proven hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) surviving more than 5 years after surgery are investigated from February 1961 to July 1986. Of them, 104 patients underwent resection of HCC and nine patients underwent hepatic artery ligation (HAL) and/ or infusion chemotherapy (HAI) for unresectable HCC. Subclinical stage amounted to 49.6% (56/113) and moderate stage to 50.4% (57/113) . There were 55 patients with small HCC (