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Preoperative Portal Vein Embolization for Extended Hepatectomy

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414

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31

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2003

Year

Alan W. Hemming, Alan Reed, Richard J. Howard, Shiro Fujita, Steven N. Hochwald, James G. Caridi, Irvin F. Hawkins, Jean‐Nicolas Vauthey
Annals of Surgery

Abstract

Preoperative PVE is a safe and effective method of increasing the remnant liver volume before extended hepatectomy. Increasing the remnant liver volume in patients with estimated postresection volumes of less than 25% appears to reduce postoperative liver dysfunction.

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