Recent progress in laparoscopic liver resection

Clinical Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 8-15

  Tsukamoto, Tadashi ^a   Kanazawa, Akishige ^a   Kodai, Shintaro ^a   Kubo, Shoji ^b  

^a OSAKA CITY GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Colorectal liver metastasis; HALS; HCC; Laparoscopic liver resection; Liver transplantation; Robotic surgery; SILS; Thoracoscopic liver resection

Indexed keywords

ADRENALECTOMY; APPENDECTOMY; BLOOD VESSEL STAPLER; GASTROJEJUNOSTOMY; HAND ASSISTED LAPAROSCOPY; HEMIHEPATECTOMY; HUMAN; LAPAROENDOSCOPIC SINGLE SITE SURGERY; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LAPAROTOMY; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER PARENCHYMA; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; NATURAL ORIFICE TRANSLUMINAL ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; REVIEW; ROBOTICS; SINGLE INCISION LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; SPLENECTOMY; THORACOSCOPY; TOUCH; TRIANGULATION; WEDGE RESECTION;

EID: 84873409935     PISSN: 18657257     EISSN: 18657265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12328-012-0352-z     Document Type: Review

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