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- Title
First elective liver resection in New Zealand?
- Authors
Koea, Jonathan B.; Sorrell, Vivian F.
- Abstract
The author discusses the case of a 40-year-old female who undergone the elective liver resection in April 1975. According to the author, it was the first elective liver resection for cancer in New Zealand wherein there was no available cross-sectional radiological imaging in the country. He emphasizes that despite the lack of available preoperative imaging, surgical precedent, and staging information, the surgery became successful due to the faith and cooperation between patient and surgeon.
- Subjects
NEW Zealand; SURGICAL excision; LIVER surgery; LIVER cancer; SURGERY practice; IMAGING of cancer; MIDDLE-aged women; HEALTH
- Publication
ANZ Journal of Surgery, 2012, Vol 82, Issue 5, p289
- ISSN
1445-1433
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1445-2197.2012.06023.x