Review article
ALPPS – new approach in the treatment of advanced liver tumors
Boško Romić
; UHC Zagreb
Ivan Romić
orcid.org/0000-0003-4545-2118
; KBC Zagreb
Mate Škegro
; UHC Zagreb
Tomislav Baotić
; UHC Zagreb
Igor Petrović
; UHC Zagreb
Ognjan Deban
; UHC Zagreb
Goran Pavlek
; UHC Zagreb
Jurica Žedelj
; UHC Zagreb
Abstract
ALPPS (Associated Liver Partition and Portal Vein Ligation for Staged Hepatectomy) is an innovative surgical procedure which was presented for the first time in 2012, and in last two years it has become widely accepted by hepatobiliary surgeons and cosequently three ALPPS procedures have been performed at our institution so far. Considering that ALPPS is a relatively new method, indicated only in carefully selected patients, we still expect studies on larger number of patients, but according to last results ALPPS has proved to be a very successful surgical method which allows resectability of tumors that were considered irresectable, by promoting surprisingly fast and intensive hypertrophy of future liver remnant.
Keywords
ALPPS; liver resection; hypertrophy
Hrčak ID:
175419
URI
Publication date:
15.12.2016.
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