Central Hepatectomy Aijun Li Mengchao Wu DEFINITION Central hepatectomy, alternatively referred to as mesohepatectomy, central bisegmentectomy, middle lobectomy, or central trisegmentectomy, is an operation that removes segments 1, 4, 5,…
Robotic Liver Resection Mohammad Khreiss Allan Tsung David L. Bartlett DEFINITION The use of robotic-assisted surgery for liver resections is mostly dependent on tumor location and the experience of the…
Left Hepatic Trisectionectomy Jason A. Castellanos Kamran Idrees DEFINITION First described by Starzl et al.1 in 1982, this procedure entails a standard left hepatic hepatectomy (segments 2, 3, and 4)…
Endoscopic Ultrasonography of the Pancreas Anand R. Gupte Disaya Chavalitdhamrong Mihir S. Wagh DEFINITION Endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS or echoendoscopy or endosonography) is an endoscopic procedure using a high-frequency ultrasound transducer…
Surgical Management of Hepatic Trauma Walter L. Biffl Carlton C. Barnett Jr. DEFINITION Hepatic trauma is defined as injury to the liver. It may be associated with hemorrhage, bile leak,…
Open Distal Pancreatectomy Susanne G. Warner Rebecca M. Minter DEFINITION Distal pancreatectomy is defined as resection of the body and tail of the pancreas with or without splenectomy with transection…
Minimally Invasive Right Hepatectomy Shirin Sabbaghian Allan Tsung DEFINITION Minimally invasive right hepatectomy is defined as resection of segments 5 to 8 using minimally invasive techniques (see Part 3, Chapter…
Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy Georgios Rossidis DEFINITION Laparoscopic cholecystectomy describes a procedure involving the removal of the gallbladder using a laparoscope, a fiberoptic instrument inserted into the abdomen.1 DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS There are…
Minimally Invasive Left Hepatic Lobectomy Trang K. Nguyen Amer H. Zureikat DEFINITION A minimally invasive left hepatic lobectomy (also termed left hepatectomy or left hemihepatectomy) is the resection of the…
Right Hepatectomy Neil H. Bhayani Niraj J. Gusani Kevin Staveley-O’Carroll DEFINITION A right hepatectomy (or hemihepatectomy) consists of surgical resection of the right liver, consisting of Couinaud segments 5 to…
