Symptoms include bilateral leg edema and a number of others. Some of the other common symptoms are fatigue, lethargy, cold intolerance, weight gain, depression, slow speech, forgetfulness, constipation and coarse skin. Blood clots can get lodged in the deep veins of the legs or pelvis.
What are the results (survival and recurrence) of liver resection? For HCC patients whose tumors are successfully resected, the five-year survival is about 10% to 60%, depending on the tumor size. This means that 10% to 60 % of patients who actually undergo liver resection for liver cancer are expected to live five years.
At times a liver biopsy is necessary.Many people may have few or no symptoms with the early stages of cirrhosis. Early symptoms may include fatigue, loss of appetite, reddish and blotchy palms, and spider angiomas (pin head sized red spots with radiating blood vessels on the upper body and arms).