Surgical anatomy of caudate bile ducts: Silicon-injected cadaveric-livers dissected under magnification.

Backgrounds/aims: Caudate bile ducts are routinely presented using negative images as X-ray-cholangiograms. Such information does not provide for instant surgical orientation of the relationships between caudate ducts and the liver itself-a paramount skill for successfully performing hilar cholangiocarcinoma resection and living donor/split transplantation. This study presents a 4-step procedure to prepare, dissect and present, high-quality, 2D/3D anatomical images of biliary caudate ducts in a surgically meaningful way.

[Laparoscopic hepatectomy for liver metastasis].

The authors describe their initial experience and immediate results with laparoscopic liver resection in the treatment of four patients with liver metastasis. Three patients underwent laparoscopic anatomic bisegmentectomy 6-7 and one laparoscopic right hemihepatectomy. Mean operation time was 360 minutes and median hospital stay was 4 days.