Relationship of different surgical margins with recurrence-free survival in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma.

To investigate the impact of different surgical margin and recurrence-free survival in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The data of 601 patients who underwent curative hepatectomy for HCC between January 1997 and December 2009 were analyzed. Milan group and exceeding Milan group were divided according to the Milan Criteria. Each of them was divided into 3 groups: group A (surgical margin≤1 mm), group B (1 mm