Laparoscopic staging and intraoperative ultrasonography for liver tumor management.
Intraoperative ultrasonography has become an invaluable tool for programs that perform large volume, complex liver operations. Together with laparoscopy, intraoperative ultrasonography helps in appropriate staging, aids in decision-making, and tailors operations so as to minimize short-term morbidity and optimize long-term benefit.
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Cancer Institute of New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA.
D003657:Decision Making; D006498:Hepatectomy; D006801:Humans; D007430:Intraoperative Care; D020706:Laparoscopes; D010535:Laparoscopy / Q000379:methods; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary / Q000601:surgery*; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D018084:Ultrasonography, Interventional / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods