• Four patients with clinically nonresectable unilobar hepatic metastases from colorectal cancer were treated with a sequentially combined approach of intrahepatic arterial chemotherapy followed by surgery. Partial regression (≥ 50%) induced by chemotherapy and associated with a decline in plasma carcinoembryonic antigen level was followed successfully by a complete hepatic tumor resection in three out of four patients. All three patients continue to be free of disease from 13+ to 21+ months. This combined approach may improve the salvage rate of patients with regionally confined hepatic metastases.
(Arch Surg 1981;116:959-960)