Is It Time to Consider Laparoscopic Hepatectomy for Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma? A Meta-Analysis.

Fangqiang WeiGuan WangJianyi DingChangwei DouTunan YuChengwu Zhang

Published in: Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract (2019)

LH has comparable safety, feasibility, and oncological efficacy to that of OH for ICC and has superiority in R0 resection over OH. It may be time to consider LH for ICC only if a more thorough effort on lymph node dissection is undertaken in selective patients at experienced centers.

Keyphrases

robot assisted
rectal cancer
radical prostatectomy
minimally invasive
prostate cancer
lymph node
liver metastases
sentinel lymph node
early stage