Relevance of suspicious lymph nodes in preoperative imaging for resectability, recurrence and survival of intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma

Table 1 Patients characteristics

All patients	n = 187
Age [Median, (IQR)] Range	63.8 (55.8–73.7) 32.3–84.4
Gender [Female / Male]	93 / 94
ASA classification
ASA I	2
ASA II	79
ASA III	102
ASA IV	4
Resections	n = 137
Right trisectionectomy	25
Left trisectionectomy	18
Right hepatectomy	22
Left hepatectomy	16
Mesohepatectomy ^a	7
ALPPS	6
Monosegmentectomy	9
Bisgementectomy	23
Resection of three liver sg.	9
Atypic / wedge resection	2
Vascular resections / reconstruction
Portal vein / major liver vein / inferior vena cava	17 / 19 / 13
Visceral resections / reconstruction
Adren / Diaphragm / Duodenum / Stomach / Colon	4 / 9 / 1 / 1 / 1
Histological outcome (8th edition of UICC classif.)
T1a	22
T1b	30
T2	54
T3	12
T4	19
N0	82
N1	39
NX	16
M0	129
M1 ^b	8
R0	123
R1	14
G1 – well	3
G2 – moderate	85
G3 – poor	38
G4 – undifferentiated	1
No grading – neoadjuvant therapy	10
UICC Ia	14
UICC Ib	19
UICC II	34
UICC IIIa	6
UICC IIIb	41
UICC IV	7
Cirrhosis	9^c
Unresectable	n = 50
Peritoneal carcinomatosis	19
Multifocal spread	11
Cirrhosis	3
small/impaired FLR^d	7
Complex infiltration / advanced	10

^a Central resections ≥3 segments; ^b in these patients incidentally localized peritoneal spread was diagnosed in final histology; ^c all patients with cirrhosis underwent minor resections (bisegment n = 7; monosegment n = 1, atypic resection n = 1); ^dFLR future liver remnant; 16 NX patients have no UICC stadium

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