Tape-guided living donor left hepatectomy.
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.
Takatsuki
Mitsuhisa
M
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
Kawashita
Yujo
Y
Eguchi
Susumu
S
Tajima
Yoshitsugu
Y
Kanematsu
Takashi
T
D006498:Hepatectomy / Q000295:instrumentation*; D006801:Humans; D016031:Liver Transplantation; D019520:Living Donors