Role of preoperative 3D rendering for minimally invasive parenchyma sparing liver resections

Video assisted resections. Increasing access to minimally invasive liver surgery?

OBJECTIVE To evaluate perioperative outcomes, safety and feasibility of video-assisted resection for primary and secondary liver lesions. METHODS From a prospective database, we analyzed the perioperative results (up to 90 days) of 25 consecutive patients undergoing video-assisted resections in the period between June 2007 and June 2013. RESULTS The mean age was 53.4 years (23-73) and 16 (6...

Minimally Invasive Robot – Assisted Colorectal Resections

Laparoscopic Parenchyma-sparing Liver Resection for Colorectal Metastases

Background Laparoscopic liver resection (LLR) of colorectal liver metastases (CLM) is increasingly performed in specialized centers. While there is a trend towards a parenchyma-sparing strategy in multimodal treatment for CLM, its role is yet unclear. In this study we present short- and long-term outcomes of laparoscopic parenchyma-sparing liver resection (LPSLR) at a single center. Patients ...

Automatic segmentation of the liver for preoperative planning of resections.

This work presents first quantitative results of a method for automatic liver segmentation from CT data. It is based on a 3D deformable model approach using a-priori statistical information about the shape of the liver gained from a training set. The model is adapted to the data in an iterative process by analysis of the grey value profiles along its surface normals after nonlinear diffusion fi...

Anatomic lung resections using minimally invasive thoracic surgery (MITS).

We have designed a minimally invasive thoracic surgery (MITS), which, in this report, we compare to the conventional muscle-sparing thoracotomy (MST). We retrospectively compared 70 consecutive MITS patients (mean age, 65 years) and 70 consecutive MST patients (mean age, 60 years) who underwent thoracotomies for similar pathologies between 1995 and 1997. All comparisons between the MITS and MST...