Impact of tumor size on the difficulty of laparoscopic left lateral sectionectomies.
Giada ArizzaNadia RussolilloAlessandro FerreroNicholas Li-Xun SynFederica CiprianiDavit L AghayanMarco Vito MarinoRiccardo MemeoVincenzo MazzaferroAdrian K H ChiowIswanto SucandyArpad IvaneczMarco VivarelliFabrizio Di BenedettoSung-Hoon ChoiJae Hoon LeeJames O ParkMikel GastacaConstantino FondevilaMikhail EfanovFernando RotellarGi-Hong ChoiRicardo Robles-CamposXiaoying WangRobert P SutcliffeJohann PratschkeChung Ngai TangCharing C ChongMathieu D'HondtChee Chien YongAndrea RuzzenentePaolo HermanT Peter KinghamOlivier ScattonRong LiuGiovanni Battista Levi SandriOlivier SoubraneAlejandro MejiaSantiago Lopez-BenKazateru MondenGo WakabayashiDaniel CherquiRoberto I TroisiMengqiu YinFelice GiulianteDavid GellerAtsushi SugiokaBjorn EdwinTan-To CheungTran Cong Duy LongMohammad Abu HilalDavid FuksKuo-Hsin ChenLuca AldrighettiHo-Seong HanBrian Kim Poh Gohnull nullPublished in: Journal of hepato-biliary-pancreatic sciences (2022)
L-LLS for tumors of increasing size was associated with poorer intraoperative and early postoperative outcomes suggesting increasing difficulty of the procedure. We determined three optimal TS cutoffs (40-, 70- and 100-mm) to accurately stratify surgical difficulty after L-LLS.