• Ann. Surg. Oncol. · Aug 2014

    Conservative hepatectomy for tumors involving the middle hepatic vein and segment 1: the liver tunnel.

    • Guido Torzilli, Matteo Cimino, Fabio Procopio, Guido Costa, Matteo Donadon, Daniele Del Fabbro, Andrea Gatti, and Carlos A Garcia-Etienne.
    • Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Humanitas Research Hospital, University of Milan-School of Medicine, Rozzano, Milan, Italy, guido.torzilli@humanitas.it.
    • Ann. Surg. Oncol. 2014 Aug 1; 21 (8): 2699.

    BackgroundFor lesions invading the middle hepatic vein (MHV) at caval confluence (CC) the mini-mesohepatectomy(MMH) was proposed.1 If the lesion is extended to the paracaval portion of segment 1(S1) in contact or invading the MHV a new procedure is proposed.MethodsCase-1: mass forming cholangiocarcinoma (MFCCC) 4cm in size invading the MHV and in contact with right (RHV) and left hepatic vein (LHV) at the CC. In Case-2, two colorectal liver metastases (CLM) both 2cm in size occupied S1 (T1) and S8 (T2): T1 was located between RHV and the inferior vena cava (IVC), T2 was in contact with MHV at CC. According to tumor-vessel intraoperative-ultrasound classification2 and color-flow analysis3 parenchyma-sparing procedure was performed.ResultsIn Case-1 a communicating vein (CV) between RHV and MHV was detected at color-flow-IOUS. Contacts between MFCCC with RHV and LHV were confirmed at IOUS as detachable. In Case-2 contact between T1 with MHV was confirmed at IOUS as detachable. Liver-tunnel with IVC and main portal vein bifurcation exposure was performed resecting the MHV in Case-1 and preserving it in Case-2. Both patients had ad an uneventful postoperative course and were discharged on the 8th postoperative day.ConclusionFor tumors involving S1, S4s and/or S8 and infiltrating or in contact with the MHV at the CC, can be removed in a conservative manner by means of the herein described ''Liver Tunnel'' approach. The latter introduces a further step in favour of parenchyma-sparing policy for centrally located lesions with complex tumor-vessel relationship.

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