Journal of laparoendoscopic & advanced surgical techniques. Part A
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J Laparoendosc Adv Surg Tech A · Sep 2016
Clinical Utility of the Difficulty Scoring System for Predicting Surgical Time of Laparoscopic Liver Resection.
Laparoscopic liver resection (LLR) has several problems, such as technical complexity and patient and tumor factors. A difficulty scoring system to preoperatively evaluate the difficulty of LLR was established at the second International Consensus Conference on Laparoscopic Liver Resection. The aim of this study was to explore the clinical usefulness of the difficulty scoring system for LLR. ⋯ The difficulty score was found to be an effective predictor of surgical time for LLR.