Surgery
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Liver remnant function limits major liver resections to generally leave patients with ≥2 Couinaud segments. Associating Liver Partition and Portal vein ligation for Staged hepatectomy (ALPPS) induces extensive hypertrophy and allows surgeons to perform extreme liver resections. ⋯ ALPPS allows systematic liver resections with monosegment remnants, a novelty in liver surgery. Because such resections are difficult to conceive without rapid hypertrophy, we propose to name such resections after the segments constituting the liver remnant rather than the segments removed.