Erschienen in:
01.09.2013 | Editorial
How can we safely climb the ALPPS?
verfasst von:
Norihiro Kokudo, Junichi Shindoh
Erschienen in:
Updates in Surgery
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Ausgabe 3/2013
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Excerpt
R0 resection with zero mortality is the ultimate goal for hepatobiliary surgeons, especially for the treatment of extensive hepatobiliary malignancies. The safety of liver resection is dependent on the function of the future liver remnant (FLR), and an inadequate FLR volume is related to a significant increase in postoperative mortality and morbidity. Therefore, various criteria for the FLR volume have been proposed to secure the safety of major hepatectomies according to the extent of underlying injury in the liver [
1‐
5]. However, these criteria for FLR volume often cause clinical dilemmas for surgeons in determining the surgical indications for patients with small FLR volumes because the safety of surgery and oncological radicality are, by nature, conflicting factors. …