Laura Alaimo, Yutaka Endo, Giovanni Catalano, Andrea Ruzzenente, Luca Aldrighetti, Matthew Weiss, Todd W Bauer, Sorin Alexandrescu, George A Poultsides, Shishir K Maithel, Hugo P Marques, Guillaume Martel, Carlo Pulitano, Feng Shen, François Cauchy, Bas Groot Koerkamp, Itaru Endo, Minoru Kitago, Timothy M Pawlik
INTRODUCTION: Benchmarking in surgery has been proposed as a means to compare results across institutions to establish best practices. We sought to define benchmark values for hepatectomy for intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC) across an international population. METHODS: Patients who underwent liver resection for ICC between 1990 and 2020 were identified from an international database, including 14 Eastern and Western institutions. Patients operated on at high-volume centers who had no preoperative jaundice, ASA class <3, body mass index <35 km/m2 , without need for bile duct or vascular resection were chosen as the benchmark group...
January 12, 2024: Annals of Surgical Oncology