Initial experience in single-incision transumbilical laparoscopic liver resection: indications, potential benefits, and limitations.

Conclusion. SITLLR remains a challenging procedure. It is feasible in highly selected patients, requiring experience in hepatobiliary and laparoscopic surgery and skills in single-incision laparoscopy. Apart from cosmetic benefit, our experience and literature review did not show significant advantages if compared with multiport LLR, underlying that specific indications remain to be established. PMID: 23082044 [PubMed]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23082044?dopt=Abstract

Source: HPB Surgery - October 29, 2015 Category: Surgery Tags: HPB Surg Source Type: research