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Dealing with insufficient liver remnant: Associating liver partition and portal vein ligation for staged hepatectomy
Author(s) -
Linecker Michael,
Kuemmerli Christoph,
Clavien PierreAlain,
Petrowsky Henrik
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of surgical oncology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.201
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1096-9098
pISSN - 0022-4790
DOI - 10.1002/jso.25435
Subject(s) - medicine , hepatectomy , resection , ligation , portal vein , surgery , chemotherapy , general surgery , gastroenterology
Liver resection for colorectal liver metastases has emerged to highly successful treatment in the last decades. Key to this success is complete hepatic tumor removal and systemic disease control by chemotherapy. Associating liver partition and portal vein ligation for staged hepatectomy is the most recent two‐stage resection strategy for patients with very small future liver remnant making complete tumor removal possible within 1 to 2 weeks. Oncological outcome data are being collected at the moment and first results from small series reveal promising results.