Liver Surgery: From Basics to Robotics

In this issue of Surgical Clinics of North America, a spectrum of liver surgery topics is summarized, bringing the reader up-to-date with the era of modern hepatic resection surgery. The basics of liver anatomy and history are reviewed, along with articles on hepatic cysts and liver abscess, imaging and work-up of incidental liver mass, management of benign liver lesions, hepatic resection nomenclature and techniques, laparoscopic liver resection, robotic liver surgery, emergency hepatic resection for liver trauma, repair of laparoscopic cholecystectomy injury, current approach to HCC, intra-hepatic cholangiocarcinoma, resection of metastatic colorectal cancer, neuroendocrine cancer metastases, hepatic ablation procedures, fulminant hepatic failure and when to transplant, and the current role of shunts versus TIPS for portal HTN.