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Causes of death in patients undergoing liver surgery

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Hepatobiliary Cancer

Part of the book series: Cancer Treatment and Research ((CTAR,volume 69))

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The earliest liver surgery was performed almost exclusively for trauma. In 1888, Langenbuch reported the first liver resection for tumor [1]. At the end of the nineteenth century, Keen related another case of hepatic resection for removal of a neoplasm and reviewed 76 cases of liver resection performed up to that time [2]. Controlled anatomic hepatic resections became more accepted after Couinaud and others reported in the 1950s the precise lobar and segmental anatomy of the liver [3–7]. Since that time major advances in the technique of liver resection, as well as improvement in preoperative and postoperative care, have been associated with a reduction in postoperative mortality and complication rate.

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Detroz, B., Sugarbaker, P.H., Knol, J.A., Petrelli, N., Hughes, K.S. (1994). Causes of death in patients undergoing liver surgery. In: Sugarbaker, P.H. (eds) Hepatobiliary Cancer. Cancer Treatment and Research, vol 69. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2604-9_20

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