title: Laparoscopic Hepatectomy for Liver Cancer.
abstract: This chapter covers a range of important topics of laparoscopic hepatectomy as a novel approach toward treatment of liver cancer. Although laparoscopic hepatectomy was performed in a limited number of centers in the 1990s, technological innovations, improvements in surgical techniques and accumulation of experience by surgeons have led to more rapid progress in laparoscopic hepatectomy in the late 2000s for minimally invasive hepatic surgery. Currently, laparoscopic hepatectomy can be performed for all tumor locations and several diseases via several approaches. The laparoscopic approach can be applied to several types of resection, not only for tumors but also for liver transplantation, with equivalent or better results compared with those obtained with open surgery. Therefore, laparoscopic hepatectomy will become a standard procedure for treatment of liver cancer in the near future.
authors.affiliation: Department of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery, Osaka City General Hospital, Miyakojima-ku, Osaka, Japan.
authors.forename: Akishige
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kanazawa
authors.forename: Tadashi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Tsukamoto
authors.forename: Sadatoshi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Shimizu
authors.forename: Satoshi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yamamoto
authors.forename: Akihiro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Murata
authors.forename: Shoji
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kubo
mesh_terms: D006498:Hepatectomy / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D010535:Laparoscopy; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*