Pure laparoscopic hepatectomy for hepatocellular carcinoma with chronic liver disease

Figure 1 Repeat pure laparoscopic hepatectomy for patients with liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinomas was feasible and safe: case 1. A: Computed tomorgraphy scan shows two hepatocellular carcinomas (HCC) in segment 3; B: The tumors (arrows) resected laparoscopycally.; C: A 69-year-old woman with type-C liver cirrhosis developed a new HCC on the caudal edge of segment 6 of the liver 2 years after the first hepatectomy; D: At the second laparoscopic hepatectomy, there was only mild adhesion around the resected area