• Department of Liver Surgery, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, P. R. China;
LI Jiaxin, Email: 407723080@qq.com
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Tumors located in the middle lobe of liver were usually subjected to extended hemihepatectomy due to its special anatomical location and high surgical difficulty. However, the incidence of postoperative liver failure and mortality increased accordingly for patients with liver cirrhosis and poor liver function because more liver parenchyma was resected. Therefore, some researchers proposed to use central hepatectomy to treat. However, due to the higher-level technology and the higher risk, it had not been carried out routinely following decades. Later, with the rapid development of laparoscopic technology in the liver surgery and its advantages such as small trauma, rapid postoperative recovery, and the same efficacy as open liver surgery, the reports on laparoscopic central hepatectomy (LCH) at home and abroad had been increasing year by year. Especially, with the standardization of LCH, the development of LCH will be promoted. LCH might become the mainstream of surgical treatment of middle liver tumors in the future.

Citation: FENG Qingbo, LI Jiaxin, ZENG Yong, WU Hong. Current status and prospect in laparoscopic central hepatectomy. CHINESE JOURNAL OF BASES AND CLINICS IN GENERAL SURGERY, 2022, 29(4): 421-425. doi: 10.7507/1007-9424.202112023 Copy