Techniques Of Liver Surgery

Techniques of Liver Surgery is a concise, step-by-step guide to a range of techniques used in liver surgery, from standard approaches to transplantation. Each chapter assesses indications, contraindications, and preoperative planning, before providing a full step-by-step explanation of the procedure. The book also features a detailed description of the “W” technique, a safer technique for performing the hepatic artery anstomosis in living donor liver transplantation. Enhanced by 240 full colour images and illustrations.

This book presents the latest knowledge in liver resection. It includes preoperative assessment, hepatic vascular occlusion, live parenchyma transection, various liver resection techniques, liver transplantation, ex situ ex vivo resection, auto-transplantation, laparoscopic liver resection and outcome of liver resection. It describes 21 resection techniques in the same style. Each chapter is built around a series of descriptive photographs and illustrations, which are explained in detail in the text. At the end of each section there are key points that are critical for surgeons performing liver resections. The authors share their extensive experience of liver resections. This book will help practitioners perform safe and expeditious resections and reduce postoperative liver failure. Hepato-bilio pancreatic surgeons, hepatologists, radiologists, clinicians and researchers who are interested in liver surgery will find this book an invaluable guide.​

This volume is a complete manual of operative techniques for battling a severe liver injury. It provides an easy pre-operative and intra-operative reference with clear illustrations, line drawings as well as actual intra-operative color pictures, supplemented by online video segments. The early sections of the book deal with the fundamentals of surgical anatomy and critical maneuvers in the resuscitation of the patient in extremis. The various technical maneuvers for manual control of hemorrhage, debridement-resection as well as formal lobectomy of the liver, the identification of biliary tract injuries and other miscellaneous techniques, such as balloon tamponade of missile tracts, are discussed in complete detail. The book also sketches the role of liver transplantation surgeons in the acute trauma setting. The final chapters focus on the urgent problem of teaching operative techniques to young trauma surgeons in an era of dwindling surgical experience. Written by authors who are world- renowned experts in trauma management, often termed “master-surgeons”, Operative Techniques for Severe Liver Injury is required preparation for all surgeons who are likely to face a massive crush injury of the liver.

Techniques in Liver Surgery is a practical textbook giving a clear, step-by-step account of the many techniques now used in liver surgery, ranging from the standard approaches to liver resection and transplantation, through to advanced procedures such as major liver resections using hypothermic perfusion, auxi liary liver transplantation and transplantation from living related donors. In addition to specific techniques, the book provides detailed coverage of the surgical anatomy of the liver, the basic approaches to liver surgery and the history of the specialty itself. Throughout, the book is superbly illustrated with detailed colour line drawings, intraoperative photographs and radiological images, providing an invaluable source of information on the surgical anatomy of the liver and all of the common and less common techniques that are likely to be encountered by the hepatobiliary surgeon, both in training and in practice.

A guide to modern operative techniques in liver surgery. The text gives a detailed description of the operative anatomy and, in particular, the performance of right and left hepatectomy, intrahepatic bypass procedures and the removal of eight segments of the liver, individually or in combination.

Ultrasound guidance of liver surgery is a very sophisticated approach that permits the performance of otherwise unfeasible operations, discloses the true extent of tumors, increases the indications for hepatectomy, and renders surgery safer. Despite this, it has remained relatively neglected in the literature over the past two decades, during which time much progress has been achieved. This is the first atlas on the subject, and it is comprehensive in scope. The state of the art in the use of ultrasound for resection guidance is carefully documented, and new techniques for exploration of the biliary tract and facilitation of transplant surgery are presented. Further important topics include the role of ultrasound in laparoscopic approaches, the use of contrast agents for diagnosis and staging, and developments in the planning of surgical strategy. The editor is a leading authority whose group has been responsible for a variety of advances in the field. He has brought together other experts whose aim throughout is to provide clear information and guidance on the optimal use of ultrasound when performing liver surgery. This atlas is intended especially for hepatobiliary surgeons but will also be of considerable value for general surgeons.

This book presents a concept of hepatic segmentation with respect to the Glissonean pedicle tree. It also outlines surgical procedures for segmentectomy and cone-unit resection. Detailed illustrations depict every important action a surgeon must consider while performing these operations.