Minimally invasive liver surgery (MILS) is going to be a method with a wide diffusion even in general surgery units. Organization, learning curve effect, and the environment are crucial issues to evaluate before starting a program of minimally invasi...
Laparoscopic resection of liver tumors located in the posterosuperior segments is a challenging operation that could be facilitated by robotic assistance. Laparoscopic resection of 12 tumors located in posterosuperior segments (IVa: 1; VII: 5; VIII: ...
Minimally invasive liver surgery is performed with increasing frequency by hepatic surgeons. Laparoscopy was the first approach to be used and it is currently safely feasible in selected patients by experienced surgeons. Minor and major laparoscopic ...
BACKGROUND: Augmented reality (AR) in surgery consists in the fusion of synthetic computer-generated images (3D virtual model) obtained from medical imaging preoperative workup and real-time patient images in order to visualize unapparent anatomical ...
Following an extensive literature search and a consensus conference with subject matter experts the following conclusions can be drawn: 1. Robotic surgery is still at its infancy, and there is a great potential in sophisticated electromechanical syst...
Advancements in machine learning have revolutionized preoperative risk assessment. In this article, we comment on the article by Huang , which presents a recent multicenter cohort study demonstrated that machine learning algorithms effectively strati...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Apr 8, 2025
INTRODUCTION: Gut microbiota (GM) is implicated in the remnant liver regeneration (LR) after partial hepatectomy (PH) and affects outcomes. Our study shifts the algorithmic computational modeling from the classical knowledge of (LR) to that of (GM) i...
BACKGROUND: To investigate the preoperative factors influencing textbook outcomes (TO) in Intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC) patients and evaluate the feasibility of an interpretable machine learning model for preoperative prediction of TO, we dev...
BACKGROUND: Patients with early-stage hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) generally have good survival rates following surgical resection. However, a subset of these patients experience recurrence within five years post-surgery.
PURPOSE: Radical surgery, the first-line treatment for patients with hepatocellular cancer (HCC), faces the dilemma of high early recurrence rates and the inability to predict effectively. We aim to develop and validate a multimodal model combining c...