title: Tape-guided living donor left hepatectomy.
abstract: A procedure of tape-guided living donor left hepatectomy is described. A tape was placed along the anterior wall of the inferior vena cava for left liver with caudate lobe, and along Arantius' ligament for left liver without caudate lobe. The final step of liver transection was applied by dividing the liver parenchyma under tape guidance. This procedure contributed to safe and accurate anatomic procurement of left liver grafts in living donor hepatectomy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Transplantation and Digestive Surgery, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, 1-7-1 Sakamoto, Nagasaki 852-8501, Japan. takapon@net.nagasaki-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: Mitsuhisa
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Takatsuki
authors.forename: Yujo
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kawashita
authors.forename: Susumu
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Eguchi
authors.forename: Yoshitsugu
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Tajima
authors.forename: Takashi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kanematsu
mesh_terms: D006498:Hepatectomy / Q000295:instrumentation*; D006801:Humans; D016031:Liver Transplantation; D019520:Living Donors