Minimally Invasive Surgery of the Liver

1. Minimally Invasive Surgery: An Update
Luciano Casciola

2. Minimally Invasive Surgery of the Liver: An Update
Fulvio Calise, Carla Migliaccio

Part I. Requirements

3. The Learning Curve in Laparoscopic Liver Surgery
Fulvio Calise, Marina Romano, Antonio Ceriello, Antonio Giuliani, Santolo Cozzolino

4. The Learning Curve: Teaching in Robotic Surgery
Andrea Coratti, Mario Annecchiarico

5. The Laparoscopic Column
Alberto Bartoli, Alberto Patriti

6. Technology in the Operating Room: The Robot
Graziano Ceccarelli, Alberto Patriti, Alberto Bartoli, Alessandro Spaziani, Luciano Casciola

Part II. Surgery: Principles and Management

7. Anesthesia
Ada Felice, Giuseppe Simone, Marcella Marracino, Ciro Esposito

8. Costs and Benefits. A Triad in Comparison: Open, Laparoscopic, and Robotic Surgery
Graziano Ceccarelli, Alberto Patriti, Raffaele Bellochi, Alessandro Spaziani, Luciano Casciola

9. Transection Devices
Alberto Patriti

10. The Louisville Consensus Conference: Conclusions and Perspectives
Giulio Belli, Luigi Cioffi, Andrea Belli, Corrado Fantini

11. Indications to Surgery: Laparoscopic or Robotic Approach
Luciano Casciola, Alberto Patriti

12. Diagnostic Laparoscopy and Allied Technologies
Roberto Santambrogio, Enrico Opocher

Part III. Surgery: General Aspects

13. Intraoperative Ultrasound
Alessandro Ferrero, Luca Viganò, Roberto Tesoriere, Nadia Russolillo, Lorenzo Capussotti

14. A New Anatomical Vision: Liver Surgery on the Screen
Fulvio Calise, Giuseppe Surfaro, Antonio Giuliani, Carla Migliaccio, Antonio Ceriello

15. Encircling the Pedicle for the Pringle Maneuver
Vincenzo Scuderi, Antonio Ceriello, Giuseppe Aragiusto, Antonio Giuliani, Fulvio Calise

16. Minimally Invasive Combined Surgery: Liver and Colon-Rectum
Mario Morino, Federico Famiglietti

17. Minimally Invasive Procedures for Liver Trauma
Graziano Ceccarelli, Raffaella Niola, Alberto Patriti, Fulvio Calise, Luciano Casciola

18. Minimally Invasive Surgery in Cirrhotic Patients
Giulio Belli, Paolo Limongelli, Andrea Belli, Gianluca Russo, Alberto D’Agostino

19. Reoperative Laparoscopic Hepatectomy
Joseph F. Buell, Alan Koffron, Bjørn Edwin, Robert Cannon, Brice Gayet

20. Treating the Resected Surface
Vincenzo Scuderi, Antonio Ceriello, Giuseppe Surfaro, Gianpaolo Marte, Fulvio Calise

21. Specimen Extraction
Alberto Patriti, Graziano Ceccarelli, Raffaele Bellochi, Luciano Casciola

22. Short- and Long-Term Follow-Up
Antonio Giuliani, Carla Migliaccio, Giuseppe Surfaro, Antonio Ceriello, Maurizio Defez

Part IV. Surgery: Techniques

23. Portal Vein Ligation
Giuseppe Aragiusto, Antonio Ceriello, Antonio Giuliani, Carla Migliaccio, Fulvio Calise

24. Tumorectomy
Alberto Patriti, Giorgio Ercolani, Luciano Casciola, Antonio Daniele Pinna

25. Segmentectomies (Chapters 26–34): A Foreword
Fulvio Calise

26. Segment 1: Laparoscopic Approach
Umberto Cillo, Riccardo Boetto, Alessandro Vitale, Daniele Neri

27. Segment 2: Laparoscopic and Robot-Assisted Approach
Alberto Patriti, Antonio Giuliani, Vincenzo Scuderi

28. Segment 3: Laparoscopic Approach
Marco Filauro, Claudio Bagarolo, Giulio Angelini, Fiorenza Belli, Andrea Barberis

29. Segment 4: Laparoscopic Approach
Giuseppe Maria Ettorre, Giovanni Vennarecci, Pasquale Lepiane, Andrea Laurenzi, Roberto Santoro

30. Segment 4b: Laparoscopic Approach
Felice Giuliante, Francesco Ardito, Maria Vellone, Gennaro Nuzzo

31. Segment 5: Laparoscopic Approach
Lorenzo Capussotti, Alessandro Ferrero, Luca Viganò, Roberto Lo Tesoriere

32. Segment 6: Laparoscopic Approach
Umberto Cillo, Marina Polacco, Francesco D’Amico, Enrico Gringeri

33. Segment 7: Robot-Assisted Approach
Alberto Patriti, Graziano Ceccarelli, Luciano Casciola

34. Segment 8: Robot-Assisted Approach
Alberto Patriti, Graziano Ceccarelli, Alessandro Spaziani, Luciano Casciola

35. Left Lateral Sectionectomy: Laparoscopic Approach
Luca Aldrighetti, Francesca Ratti, Federica Cipriani, Michele Paganelli, Gianfranco Ferla

36. Right Hepatectomy: Laparoscopic Approach
Michael D. Kluger, Daniel Cherqui

37. Right Hepatectomy: Robot-Assisted Approach
David Calatayud, Pier Cristoforo Giulianotti

38. Left Hepatectomy: Laparoscopic Approach
Fulvio Calise, Piero Atelli, Antonio Giuliani, Vincenzo Scuderi, Aldo Rocca

39. Left Hepatectomy: Robot-Assisted Approach
Ugo Boggi, Stefano Signori, Fabio Caniglia, Mario Belluomini, Carla Cappelli

40. Left Sectionectomy for Living Donor: Laparoscopic Approach
Marco Spada, Ugo Boggi, Calogero Ricotta, Duilio Pagano, Salvatore Gruttadauria

Part V. Surgery: Outcome

41. Complications
Antonio Giuliani, Francesco Sicoli, Walter Santaniello, Giangiacomo Nunzio Monti, Marcella Marracino

42. The Italian Experience in Minimally Invasive Surgery of the Liver: A National Survey
Luca Aldrighetti, Federica Cipriani, Francesca Ratti, Luciano Casciola, Fulvio Calise

43. Perspectives: Where Shall We Be 20 Years from Now?
Antonio Giuliani, Alberto Patriti

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