title: Liver resection with right hepatic vein reconstruction using the internal jugular vein: a case report.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The role of hepatectomy for malignant liver tumors has expanded during the past decades, and vascular reconstruction during liver resection is sometimes necessary to achieve curative surgery.
  
  
  METHODS
  We report a case of liver resection in a 54-year-old male who had liver metastasis that invaded the right hepatic vein. He had undergone laparoscopic low anterior resection for rectal cancer. Six months later, liver metastasis was detected. After the reduction of the tumor by preoperative chemotherapy, liver resection with right hepatic vein reconstruction using his own internal jugular vein graft was performed. The postoperative course was uneventful, and the patient was discharged 8 days after the surgery.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Internal jugular vein grafts are superior to other types of vascular grafts for vascular reconstruction in liver surgery.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery and Science, Kyushu University, 3-1-1 Maidashi, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, 812-8582, Japan.
authors.forename: Tomonari
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Shimagaki
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery and Science, Kyushu University, 3-1-1 Maidashi, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, 812-8582, Japan. yosizumi@surg2.med.kyushu-u.ac.jp.
authors.forename: Tomoharu
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4497-1816
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yoshizumi
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery and Science, Kyushu University, 3-1-1 Maidashi, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, 812-8582, Japan.
authors.forename: Shinji
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Itoh
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery and Science, Kyushu University, 3-1-1 Maidashi, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, 812-8582, Japan.
authors.forename: Takashi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Motomura
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery and Science, Kyushu University, 3-1-1 Maidashi, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, 812-8582, Japan.
authors.forename: Akihisa
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nagatsu
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery and Science, Kyushu University, 3-1-1 Maidashi, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, 812-8582, Japan.
authors.forename: Noboru
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Harada
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery and Science, Kyushu University, 3-1-1 Maidashi, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, 812-8582, Japan.
authors.forename: Norifumi
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Harimoto
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery and Science, Kyushu University, 3-1-1 Maidashi, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, 812-8582, Japan.
authors.forename: Toru
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ikegami
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery and Science, Kyushu University, 3-1-1 Maidashi, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, 812-8582, Japan.
authors.forename: Yuji
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Soejima
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery and Science, Kyushu University, 3-1-1 Maidashi, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, 812-8582, Japan.
authors.forename: Yoshihiko
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Maehara
keywords: Hepatic vein reconstruction; Internal jugular vein graft; Liver resection