Associating Liver Partition and Portal vein ligation for Staged hepatectomy after pre-operative chemotherapy.
Florian W R VondranFelix OldhaferKristina I RingeThomas C WirthMoritz KleineMark D JägerJuergen KlempnauerHueseyin BektasPublished in: ANZ journal of surgery (2017)
Despite pre-operative chemotherapy, ALPPS seems to result in adequate liver hypertrophy, preventing post-operative small-for-size syndrome. However, there might be a high risk of tumour recurrence in patients with an aggressive tumour biology.