Laparoscopic Liver Resection

Abstract

Until now, over 20 years has elapsed since the first conduction of laparoscopic liver resection (LLR), which was reported in 1991 for the treatment of benign liver tumors incidentally found in a gynecologic laparoscopic surgery [1]. Although numerous doctors attempted to perform LLR after the abovementioned case, the development of minimally invasive hepatic surgery was slow in the first decade, when most of the cases were laparoscopic cystic fenestration. What is more, the resections of solid tumor were mainly limited in the left lateral section or the margins of the liver [2], and very few specialized centers attempted and managed to perform laparoscopic major liver resection, which was defined as resections of three or more liver segments.