Utility of the Iwate difficulty scoring system for laparoscopic right posterior sectionectomy: do surgical outcomes differ for tumors in segments VI and VII?
Sung Hoon ChoiKuo-Hsin ChenNicholas L SynFederica CiprianiTan-To CheungAdrian K H ChiowGi-Hong ChoiTiing-Foong SiowIswanto SucandyMarco V MarinoMikel GastacaCharing C ChongJae Hoon LeeArpad IvaneczVincenzo MazzaferroSantiago Lopez-BenConstantino FondevilaFernando RotellarRicardo Robles CamposMikhail EfanovT Peter KinghamRobert P SutcliffeRoberto I TroisiJohann PratschkeXiaoying WangMathieu D'HondtChee Chien YongGiovanni Battista Levi SandriChung Ngai TangAndrea RuzzenenteDaniel CherquiAlessandro FerreroGo WakabayashiOlivier ScattonDavit AghayanBjørn EdwinFabricio Ferreira CoelhoFelice GiulianteRong LiuJasper SijberdenMohammad Abu HilalAtsushi SugiokaTran Cong Duy LongDavid FuksLuca AldrighettiHo-Seong HanBrian Kim Poh Gohnull nullPublished in: Surgical endoscopy (2022)
Among patients undergoing L-RPS, the IS did not significantly correlate with most outcome measures associated with intraoperative difficulty and postoperative outcomes. Similarly, tumor location had no effect on L-RPS outcomes.