Validity of the Iwate criteria for patients with hepatocellular carcinoma undergoing minimally invasive liver resection.

Felix KrenzienSimon WabitschPhilipp HaberCan KamaliPhilipp BrunnbauerChristian BenzingGeorgi AtanasovGo WakabayashiRobert ÖllingerJohann PratschkeMoritz Schmelzle

Published in: Journal of hepato-biliary-pancreatic sciences (2018)

The IC can be used to preoperatively assess difficulty of LLR and to predict postoperative complications in HCC patients. Thus, the IC score may be useful to differentiate easy procedures from difficult procedures and is ideal to build an LLR curriculum for upcoming surgeons.

Keyphrases

minimally invasive
end stage renal disease
quality improvement
newly diagnosed
ejection fraction
chronic kidney disease
patient reported outcomes
medical education