title: Advances in reduced port laparoscopic liver resection.
abstract: Reduced port surgery has been attracting attention in the field of minimally invasive surgery. Although the use of SILS is becoming widespread, technical difficulty has delayed its adoption for laparoscopic liver resection. Recently, advances in laparoscopic liver resection have been made in tandem with advances in surgical skill and devices. The main driver in conventional laparoscopic liver resection's evolution to become less surgically invasive seems to be single-incision laparoscopic liver resection (SILLR). To date, most reports on SILLR have been single case reports or case series. Only a few cohort studies on conventional laparoscopic surgery and SILLR have been conducted. Recent reports have described the use of SILLR for well-localized lesions and solitary tumors located in the anterolateral segments of the liver or left liver lobe, but its application remains limited to partial resection and left lateral sectionectomy. The feasibility and safety of SILLR have been demonstrated, but additional work is needed for standardization of the procedure.
authors.affiliation: Department of Hepatobiliary-Pancreatic Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: Daisuke
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Ban
authors.forename: Atsushi
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kudo
authors.forename: Takumi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Irie
authors.forename: Takanori
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ochiai
authors.forename: Arihiro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Aihara
authors.forename: Satoshi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Matsumura
authors.forename: Shinji
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Tanaka
authors.forename: Minoru
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tanabe
mesh_terms: D004867:Equipment Design; D006498:Hepatectomy / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D020706:Laparoscopes; D010535:Laparoscopy / Q000379:methods*; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*
keywords: Laparoscopic liver resection; reduced port surgery; single incision laparoscopic surgery