Laparoscopic Liver Resection Headed for Mainstream

Elsevier Global Medical News. 2011 Apr 11, D Mahoney

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News ArticleSAN ANTONIO (EGMN) - Laparoscopic liver resection provides significant intraoperative and postoperative benefits, compared with open hepatic resection, in patients with benign and malignant tumors and it does not compromise 5-year outcomes in hepatocellular carcinoma or colorectal cancer metastases, said Dr. David A. Geller, codirector of the liver cancer center at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.Not yet considered standard of care, "laparoscopic hepatic resection [LHR] has...

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