Background: Despite recent advances in the field of laparoscopic liver surgery, intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (iCC) as an entity has been nearly exempted from the new approaches because of proposed technical difficulties in achieving lymphadenectomy (LAD) and beneficial oncologic outcomes. Materials and Methods: Clinical courses of all consecutive patients (n = 159) undergoing liver resection for iCC at the Department of Surgery, Charité-Universitätsmedizin between January 2015 and October 2019 were studied. Ultimately, after applying selection criteria 27 laparoscopic liver resections were compared with 31 open liver resections. Results: Preoperative patient characteristics were similar with regard to general health and tumor characteristics. However, patients in the laparoscopic group tended to have more advanced liver fibrosis. When LAD was performed laparoscopically, a median of eight lymph nodes were resected, complying with current AJCC treatment guidelines. Patients undergoing laparoscopic resection showed lower overall morbidity contributing at least in part to a markedly decreased hospital stay. Conclusions: Herein, we report on one of the largest series of laparoscopically resected iCC, with a high proportion of major resections. Our data show laparoscopic resection to achieve noninferior outcomes to open resection despite impaired preoperative liver function.
Background: Despite recent advances in the field of laparoscopic liver surgery, intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (iCC) as an entity has been nearly exempted from the new approaches because of proposed technical difficulties in achieving lymphadenectomy (LAD) and beneficial oncologic outcomes. Materials and Methods: Clinical courses of all consecutive patients (n = 159) undergoing liver resection for iCC at the Department of Surgery, Charité-Universitätsmedizin between January 2015 and October 2019 were studied. Ultimately, after applying selection criteria 27 laparoscopic liver resections were compared with 31 open liver resections. Results: Preoperative patient characteristics were similar with regard to general health and tumor characteristics. However, patients in the laparoscopic group tended to have more advanced liver fibrosis. When LAD was performed laparoscopically, a median of eight lymph nodes were resected, complying with current AJCC treatment guidelines. Patients undergoing laparoscopic resection showed lower overall morbidity contributing at least in part to a markedly decreased hospital stay. Conclusions: Herein, we report on one of the largest series of laparoscopically resected iCC, with a high proportion of major resections. Our data show laparoscopic resection to achieve noninferior outcomes to open resection despite impaired preoperative liver function.
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cholangiocarcinoma; laparoscopy; liver surgery
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