Evaluation of prognostic factors and implication of lymph node dissection in intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma: 10-year experience at a tertiary referral center.

Background: Intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC) is the second most common primary liver malignancy, and surgical resection remains the only potentially curative treatment. However, the existing literature indicates that those prognostic factors associated with outcome after surgery remain poorly defined.

Methods: Data were retrospectively collected from 103 patients with ICC who underwent surgical resection between 2005 and 2014.