Application progress of laparoscopy in the treatment of liver tumors

Abstract

Laparoscopy has been used for the treatment of liver tumors for nearly 30 years. Since then, the world's liver surgeon giving a great deal of energy and enthusiasm to this tool, expanding indications and optimizing laparoscopy operation procedures, making indications of laparoscopic liver resection from the edge of liver benign tumors gradually extended to the left lobe, right lobe, left or right anterolateral segmentectomy or posterosuperior segmentectomy, right posterior sectionectomy, central hepatectomy, and extended left/right hepatectomy or caudate lobe. Accompanied by image technology upgrade, energy equipment update and the delicate anatomic stratagem, the security, effectiveness, advantages of laparoscopy in treatment of liver tumor got fully verified recently. There are plenty of basic and clinical research also fully confirmed the perioperative advantage of laparoscopic in liver cancer treatment. For the long-term therapeutic effect, continued case observation and strategy adjustment are still required in future. Key words: Laparoscopy; Hepatectomy; Liver neoplasms