Hu XS, Wang Y, Pan HT, Zhu C, Chen SL, Zhou S, Liu HC, Pang Q, Jin H. “Hepatic hilum area priority, liver posterior first”: An optimized strategy in laparoscopic resection for type III-IV hilar cholangiocarcinoma. World J Gastrointest Surg 2024; 16(7): 2167-2174 [PMID: 39087123 DOI: 10.4240/wjgs.v16.i7.2167]
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Hao Jin, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery, Anhui No. 2 Provincial People's Hospital, No. 1868 Dangshan Road, Hefei 230041, Anhui Province, China. jinhaogandan@126.com
Research Domain of This Article
Gastroenterology & Hepatology
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Retrospective Study
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Author contributions: Hu XS and Wang Y contributed to the manuscript preparation; Pan HT and Zhou S helped to perform the statistical analysis and the literature research; Hu XS, Zhu C, and Chen SL contributed to data collection and analysis; Liu HC guided and supervised the research; Jin H conceptualized, designed, and supervised the whole process of the research; Pang Q was responsible for data re-analysis, figures and tables plotting, language polishing, and literature search. Both Jin H and Pang Q played important and indispensable roles in the study design, data analysis and manuscript preparation as the co-corresponding authors. This collaboration between Jin H and Pang Q is crucial for the publication of this manuscript.
Supported bythe Health Research Program of Anhui, No. AHWJ2022b032 and No. AHWJ2023A30034.
Institutional review board statement: This study received approval from the Ethics Committee of the Second People’s Hospital of Anhui Province (approval number: 2022-011).
Informed consent statement: All study participants, or their legal guardian, provided informed written consent prior to operation.
Conflict-of-interest statement: All the authors report no relevant conflicts of interest for this article.
Data sharing statement: Participants gave informed consent for data sharing.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: https://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Corresponding author: Hao Jin, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery, Anhui No. 2 Provincial People's Hospital, No. 1868 Dangshan Road, Hefei 230041, Anhui Province, China. jinhaogandan@126.com
Received: March 27, 2024 Revised: May 31, 2024 Accepted: June 20, 2024 Published online: July 27, 2024 Processing time: 117 Days and 8.5 Hours
Core Tip
Core Tip: In recent years, pure laparoscopic radical surgery for Bismuth-Corlette types III and IV hilar cholangiocarcinoma (HCCA) has been preliminarily explored and applied, while the surgical strategy and safety remain worthy of further improvement. We summarized the application experience of the strategy of “hepatic hilum area dissection priority, liver posterior separation first” in pure laparoscopic radical resection for patients with HCCA of Bismuth-Corlette types III and IV. All the 6 patients successfully received pure laparoscopic radical resection with this strategy. None of the patients had blood transfusion during perioperative period. All patients were discharged without serious surgery-related complications. The strategy of “hepatic hilum area dissection priority, liver posterior separation first” is safe and feasible in the pure laparoscopic radical surgery for Bismuth-Corlette types III and IV HCCA.
