Surgery is the gold standard treatment of colorectal liver metastases. Patients management had a dramatic evolution during the past years: more accurate diagnostic tools and more effective chemotherapy regimens have been introduced and surgical indications have been widely broadened. A multidisciplinary treatment is now mandatory, involving oncologists, radiologists an gastroenterologists. However, many topics are still debated. In the present book all aspects of surgical treatment of colorectal liver metastases are analyzed based on a systematic, updated analysis of the literature. Aim of this book is to provide surgeons, oncologists and radiologists a clear overview of the state-of-the-art of treatment of colorectal liver metastases.

The aim of the present book is to elucidate the role of surgery in the therapeutic approach to colorectal liver metastases An extensive literature review provides the basis for every chapter, allowing an analysis of current levels of evidence Medical treatments and interventional procedures complementary to surgery are evaluated, omitting their exclusive application in the palliative setting

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1. Epidemiology and Natural History 2. Diagnosis and Staging 3. Evolution of resectability criteria 4. Surgical strategy 5. Results of surgery and prognostic factors 6. Preoperative chemotherapy 7. Synchronous colorectal liver metastases 8. Therapeutic strategies in unresectable colorectal liver metastases 9. Extra-hepatic disease 10. Adjuvant chemotherapy and follow up 11. Re-resection: indications and results 12. LiverMetSurvey Registry: the Italian Experience