Yutaka Endo, Diamantis I Tsilimigras, Muhammad Musaab Munir, Selamawit Woldesenbet, Jason Yang, Erryk Katayama, Alfredo Guglielmi, Francesca Ratti, Hugo P Marques, François Cauchy, Vincent Lam, George A Poultsides, Minoru Kitago, Irinel Popescu, Sorin Alexandrescu, Guillaume Martel, Ana Gleisner, Tom Hugh, Luca Aldrighetti, Feng Shen, Itaru Endo, Timothy M Pawlik
BACKGROUND: We sought to investigate whether minimally invasive hepatectomy (MIH) was superior to open hepatectomy (OH) in terms of achieving textbook outcome in liver surgery (TOLS) after resection of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). METHODS: Patients who underwent resection of HCC between 2000 and 2020 were identified from an international database. TOLS was defined by the absence of intraoperative grade ≥2 events, R1 resection margin, posthepatectomy liver failure, bile leakage, major complications, in-hospital mortality, and readmission...
April 2024: Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery