Federica Cipriani, Luca Aldrighetti, Francesca Ratti, Andrew G R Wu, Tousif Kabir, Olivier Scatton, Chetana Lim, Wanguang Zhang, Jasper Sijberden, Davit L Aghayan, Tiing-Foong Siow, Safi Dokmak, Fabricio Ferreira Coelho, Paulo Herman, Marco V Marino, Vincenzo Mazzaferro, Adrian K H Chiow, Iswanto Sucandy, Arpad Ivanecz, Sung-Hoon Choi, Jae Hoon Lee, Mikel Gastaca, Marco Vivarelli, Felice Giuliante, Andrea Ruzzenente, Chee-Chien Yong, Mengqiu Yin, Constantino Fondevila, Mikhail Efanov, Zenichi Morise, Fabrizio Di Benedetto, Raffaele Brustia, Raffaele Dalla Valle, Ugo Boggi, David Geller, Andrea Belli, Riccardo Memeo, Salvatore Gruttadauria, Alejandro Mejia, James O Park, Fernando Rotellar, Gi-Hong Choi, Ricardo Robles-Campos, Xiaoying Wang, Robert P Sutcliffe, Johann Pratschke, Eric C H Lai, Charing C N Chong, Mathieu D'Hondt, Kazuteru Monden, Santiago Lopez-Ben, T Peter Kingham, Alessandro Ferrero, Giuseppe Maria Ettorre, Daniel Cherqui, Xiao Liang, Olivier Soubrane, Go Wakabayashi, Roberto I Troisi, Tan-To Cheung, Yutaro Kato, Atsushi Sugioka, Ho-Seong Han, Tran Cong Duy Long, Qu Liu, Rong Liu, Bjørn Edwin, David Fuks, Kuo-Hsin Chen, Mohammad Abu Hilal, Brian K P Goh
BACKGROUND: Minimally invasive liver resections (MILR) offer potential benefits such as reduced blood loss and morbidity compared with open liver resections. Several studies have suggested that the impact of cirrhosis differs according to the extent and complexity of resection. Our aim was to investigate the impact of cirrhosis on the difficulty and outcomes of MILR, focusing on major hepatectomies. METHODS: A total of 2534 patients undergoing minimally invasive major hepatectomies (MIMH) for primary malignancies across 58 centers worldwide were retrospectively reviewed...
November 7, 2023: Annals of Surgical Oncology