Examination of the characteristics of long-term survivors among patients with gallbladder cancer with liver metastasis who underwent surgical treatment: a retrospective multicenter study (ACRoS1406)

Table 2 The pattern of recurrence due to liver metastasis in resected stage III/IV gallbladder cancer patients without peritoneal dissemination or pre-operative jaundice

	Liver metastasis
	H0	H1	H2
Number of patients	103	9	7
Recurrence	62 (60%)	4 (44%)	5/6 (83%)
Time to recurrence in recurrent cases (months, median)	14.0	6.0	7.0
Liver	23/101 (23%)	1 (11%)	3/6 (50%)
Lymph node	18/101 (18%)	1 (11%)	2/6 (33%)
Local	12/101 (12%)	1 (11%)	0
Dissemination	16/101 (16%)	1 (11%)	1 (17%)
Others	8/101 (8%)	0	0

All were not significant in comparison to each group. H0, no liver metastasis; H1, one liver metastasis; H2, Two or more liver metastasis

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