Kawabe N, Morise Z, Tomishige H, Nagata H, Kawase J, Arakawa S, Isetani M. Laparoscopic liver resection for the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma. World J Surg Proced 2015; 5(1): 137-141 [DOI: 10.5412/wjsp.v5.i1.137]
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Zenichi Morise, MD, PhD, FACS, Department of Surgery, Fujita Health University School of Medicine, Banbuntane Houtokukai Hospital, 3-6-10 Otobashi Nakagawa-ku, Aichi, Nagoya 454-8509, Japan. zmorise@fujita-hu.ac.jp
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Surgery
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Minireviews
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Norihiko Kawabe, Zenichi Morise, Hirokazu Tomishige, Hidetoshi Nagata, Jin Kawase, Satoshi Arakawa, Masashi Isetani, Department of Surgery, Fujita Health University School of Medicine, Banbuntane Houtokukai Hospital, Aichi, Nagoya 454-8509, Japan
Author contributions: Kawabe N and Morise Z wrote the manuscript; Tomishige H, Nagata H, Kawase J, Arakawa S and Isetani M collected the data and assisted in writing the manuscript.
Conflict-of-interest: There is no conflict of interest that is related to this work.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article which was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (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: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Correspondence to: Zenichi Morise, MD, PhD, FACS, Department of Surgery, Fujita Health University School of Medicine, Banbuntane Houtokukai Hospital, 3-6-10 Otobashi Nakagawa-ku, Aichi, Nagoya 454-8509, Japan. zmorise@fujita-hu.ac.jp
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Received: September 27, 2014 Peer-review started: September 28, 2014 First decision: December 17, 2014 Revised: December 29, 2014 Accepted: January 15, 2015 Article in press: January 19, 2015 Published online: March 28, 2015 Processing time: 187 Days and 7.4 Hours
Core Tip
Core tip: In laparoscopic approach, there are minimum needs for: (1) laparotomy and dissection of the attachments/adhesion which may cause destructions in the collateral blood/lymphatic flows; and (2) compression of the liver which may cause parenchymal damage for liver resection (LR). Therefore, laparoscopic LR (LLR) results in minimal postoperative ascites and following fatal complications in the patients with hepatocellular carcinoma and chronic liver disease. Laparoscopic approach also results in improved vision and manipulation in a small operative field in the case of repeat LR between adhesions. These characteristics make LLR safer and more accessible to the repeat treatment, such as multicentric/metachronous lesions in cirrhotic liver.
