Impact of liver cirrhosis on the difficulty of minimally-invasive liver resections: a 1:1 coarsened exact-matched controlled study.

Brian Kim Poh GohNicholas SynSer-Yee LeeYe-Xin KohJin-Yao TeoJuinn-Huar KamPeng-Chung CheowPrema-Raj JeyarajPierce K ChowLondon L OoiAlexander Y ChungChung-Yip Chan

Published in: Surgical endoscopy (2020)

The presence of liver cirrhosis affected both the intraoperative technical difficulty and postoperative outcomes of MILR and hence should be considered an important parameter to be included in future difficulty scoring systems for MILR.

Keyphrases

minimally invasive
patients undergoing
current status
density functional theory
robot assisted
adipose tissue
weight loss