BACKGROUND Segment-oriented liver resections can be performed effective by posterior intrahepatic approach. A significance of such resection - is that they are oncologically radical as well as parenchyma-sparing. METHODOLOGY Segmental liver resections were performed in 102 patients with liver tumors. Suprahilar control of the appropriate glissonean pedicle was achieved by the posterior intrah...

BACKGROUND Laparoscopic liver resection is used in specialized centers all over the world. However, laparoscopic liver resection has never been compared with open liver resection in a prospective, randomized trial. METHODS/DESIGN The Oslo-CoMet Study is a randomized trial into laparoscopic versus open liver resection for the surgical management of hepatic colorectal metastases. The primary ou...

Ex-situ liver surgery refers to complex liver resections involving hepatic vascular exclusion and a warm ischemia time (WIT) of more than 90 minutes that allows liver resection and vascular reconstruction in patients with giant liver tumours with a difficult approach . Ante-situm liver resections, otherwise called "œex-situ in-vivo" resections is achieved through externalization of the liver o...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Major liver resection incurs a risk of postoperative liver dysfunction and infection and there is a lack of objective evidence relating residual liver volume to these complications. PATIENTS AND METHODS Liver volumetry was performed on computer models derived from computed tomography (CT) angioportograms of 104 patients with normal synthetic liver function scheduled for li...

UNLABELLED Liver resection is essential part of colorectal cancer liver metastases (CLM) treatment. Mean 5-year overall survival after resection achieves 30-45%. There are many factors influencing long-term outcomes, and among them the inflammatory response to tumor plays an important role. THE AIM OF THE STUDY was evaluation of outcomes and treatment safety of patients with metastatic colore...

INTRODUCTION Our study aim was to evaluate the perioperative events, postoperative events and survival after a second liver resection due to colorectal liver metastases (CLM), compared with a matched control group that had only undergone primary liver resection due to CLM. MATERIAL AND METHODS Retrospective review of charts from patients having undergone a second liver resection due to CLM. A...

Purpose: 1) to compare the survival of patients with colorectal liver metastases who underwent resection as the primary treatment against patients who had chemotherapy as the primary treatment; 2) to compare the survival in patients with recurrent inoperable liver metastases (after resection) treated with Oxaliplatin or Irinotecan against those patients with inoperable recurrence who were treat...

in this study esophageal resection and radiotherapy methods were compared in relation to the patients suffering from esophageal cancer. three hundred and fifty-four patients with squamous cell carcinoma of esophagus who had been hospitalized in the cancer institute of the imam khomeini hospital, tehran, during 1981-1985 were followed up through march 21st, 1987. based on the findings, patients ...

HYPOTHESIS Resection for benign liver disease can represent a valid indication for the laparoscopic approach. DESIGN Prospective case series. SETTING Tertiary referral center. PATIENTS Fifty patients with benign disease underwent laparoscopic liver resection. Indications for resection included preoperative diagnosis of adenoma or cystadenoma, uncertain preoperative diagnosis, and presence...