Extracorporeal hepatic resection for unresectable giant hepatic hemangiomas

✍ Scribed by Toru Ikegami; Yuji Soejima; Akinobu Taketomi; Hiroto Kayashima; Kensaku Sanefuji; Tomoharu Yoshizumi; Noboru Harada; Yo-Ichi Yamashita; Yoshihiko Maehara

• Book ID: 102469093
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 412 KB
• Volume: 14
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1527-6465
• DOI: 10.1002/lt.21272

✦ Synopsis

In order to perform surgical treatment for tumors unresectable for anatomical reasons, there are two approaches: one is liver transplantation, and the other is extracorporeal hepatic resection (ECHR). [1][2][3][4][5][6][7] The benefit of liver transplantation is its simple surgical concept, and the benefits of ECHR are that it is immunosuppression-free and that organ donors are unnecessary. 1-