Zhi-Peng Liu, Wei Guo, Da-Long Yin, Wei-Yue Chen, Jiao-Yang Wang, Xue-Lei Li, Ping Yue, Chao Yu, Zhao-Ping Wu, Rui Ding, Yi Zhu, Fan Huang, Jin-Xue Zhou, Dong Zhang, Wei Chen, Yan Jiang, Jie Bai, Jing-Jing Wang, Yan-Qi Zhang, Hai-Su Dai, Wan Yee Lau, Zhi-Yu Chen
BACKGROUND: Cholecystectomy, hepatectomy, and lymphadenectomy are recommended as the curative treatment for resectable gallbladder cancer (GBC). Textbook outcomes in liver surgery (TOLS) is a novel composite measure that has been defined by expert consensus to represent the optimal postoperative course after hepatectomy. This study aimed to determine the incidence of TOLS and the independent predictors associated with TOLS after curative-intent resection in GBC patients. METHODS: All consecutive GBC patients who underwent curative-intent resection between 2014 and 2020 were enrolled from a multicenter database from 11 hospitals as the training and the internal testing cohorts, and Southwest Hospital as the external testing cohort...
June 6, 2023: International Journal of Surgery