Published in:
01-01-2016 | Review Paper
Regenerative liver surgeries: the alphabet soup of emerging techniques
Authors:
Maansi Parekh, Michael D. Kluger, Adam Griesemer, Stuart Bentley–Hibbert
Published in:
Abdominal Radiology
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Issue 1/2016
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Abstract
New surgical procedures taking advantage of the regenerative abilities of the liver are being introduced as potential curative therapies to these patients either to provide auxiliary support while the native liver recovers or undergoes hypertrophy. For patients with hepatocellular carcinoma outside of the Milan criteria or bilobar colorectal metastases liver transplantation is not an option. Fulminant hepatic failure can be treated but requires life-long immunosuppression. These complex surgical procedures require high quality and directed imaging.