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- Title
Laparoscopic Hepatectomy for Liver Cancer.
- Authors
Kanazawa, akishige; Tsukamoto, Tadashi; Shimizu, Sadatoshi; Yamamoto, Satoshi; Murata, akihiro; Kubo, Shoji
- Abstract
This chapter covers a range of important topics of laparoscopic hepatectomy as a novel approach toward treatment of liver cancer. Although laparoscopic hepatectomy was performed in a limited number of centers in the 1990s, technological innovations, improvements in surgical techniques and accumulation of experience by surgeons have led to more rapid progress in laparoscopic hepatectomy in the late 2000s for minimally invasive hepatic surgery. Currently, laparoscopic hepatectomy can be performed for all tumor locations and several diseases via several approaches. The laparoscopic approach can be applied to several types of resection, not only for tumors but also for liver transplantation, with equivalent or better results compared with those obtained with open surgery. Therefore, laparoscopic hepatectomy will become a standard procedure for treatment of liver cancer in the near future. © 2015 S. Karger AG, Basel
- Publication
Digestive Diseases, 2015, Vol 33, Issue 5, p691
- ISSN
0257-2753
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1159/000438499