Single-Port Liver Resection Safe, Feasible in Selected Patients
Surgeons have been
performing laparoscopic liver resections since the late 1980s, but the
standard approach to managing liver malignancies is still open surgery.
“Liver resection has been one of the last areas where we’ve applied
minimally invasive techniques,” said T. Peter Kingham, MD, Department of
Surgery, Hepatopancreatobiliary Service, Memorial Sloan-Kettering
Cancer Center, New York City. “It’s a challenge to safely perform the
same liver resection laparoscopically, as open, in all segments of the
liver.”
A new study, led by Mitsuhiro Asakuma, MD, Department of General and
Gastroenterological Surgery, Osaka Medical College, Takatsuki City,
Japan, demonstrated the safety and feasibility of single-port
laparoscopic liver resection using a surgical glove port in 19 patients,
all of whom recovered quickly and experienced minimal postoperative
pain. The new research, presented at the 21st International Congress of
the European Association for Endoscopic Surgery (EAES) in June, won the
Olympus EAES Award for best oral presentation on single-port surgery.
Read more... Labels: Disease Management, Liver cancer HCC, resection