The safety laparoscopic hepatectomy using pre-coagulation technique

Abstract

In a laparoscopic hepatectomy (LH), we prefer to apply a pre-coagulation technique (PT) using microwaves to reduce blood loss during liver parenchymal transection. It has been presented our experience with LH to assess the short-term outcomes of LH with PT. There were divided into Pure-Lap groups and HALS/Lap-assist groups to assess postoperative outcomes. Though operative blood loss and operative duration in HALS/Lap-Assist group were higher and longer than Pure-Lap group, postoperative morbidity and hospital stay were not significant differences between 2 groups. The LH with PT and proper selection for LH approaches depend on tumor location can lead safe laparoscopic procedure and subsequently obtained good results.