• Liver Cancer Institute, Zhong Shan Hospital, Shanghai Medical University, Shanghai 200032;
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Objective  To state operative details of lip-shaped hepatectomy (LSH) and evaluate its advantage in treatment of primary liver cancer (PLC).
Methods  LSH is one of the irregular hepatectomies. The key lies in the following five operative kinks: ①adequately mobilizing perihepatic ligaments; ②designing lip-shaped hepatic incision; ③laying sutures on both sides of the hepatic incision for traction; ④wedge-shapedly resecting the tumor and the surrounding liver; ⑤closely sewing up the hepatic cutting surface.
Results  Two hundreds and thirty three patients with PLC were treated by LSH between Oct. 1991 and Dec. 1997 in Zhongshan hospital, Shanghai medical university. Among them 8 cases underwent initial hepatectomy and resection for recurrence of the tumor. The operative mortality rate was 1.2%, 2 died of hepatic failure and 1 renal failure. In addition to bile leakage in 3 cases and hydropsy at the operative area in one case, no severe postoperative complications were found, such as intraperitoneal bleeding, subphrenic abscess and so on. The 1-,3-,5-year survival rates were 89.8%, 64.3% and 55.9% respectively, in 233 patients with 241 LSHs. 25 patients survived more than 5 years. The result indicated that the most advantage of LSH was to increase operative safety on the basis of guarantee of radical resection of PLC, especially to decrease some complications from hepatic cutting surface.
Conclusion  LSH is a relatively simple, safe, reasonable and recommendable hepatectomic modality.

Citation: MA Zengchen,TANG Zhaoyou,YU Yeqing,et al.. LIP-SHAPED HEPATECTOMY IN SURGICAL TREATMENT OF PRIMARY LIVER CANCER. CHINESE JOURNAL OF BASES AND CLINICS IN GENERAL SURGERY, 2000, 7(1): 33-36. doi: Copy

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