How Far Can We Go with Laparoscopic Liver Resection for Hepatocellular Carcinoma? Laparoscopic Sectionectomy of the Liver Combined with the Resection of the Major Hepatic Vein Main Trunk

Table 2

Comparison between the patients who underwent extended sectionectomy combined with major hepatic vein resection and the patients who underwent other anatomical resections.

	Extended sectionectomy ()	Other anatomical resections ()
Age	58–79 (72)	57–82 (72)
Male : female	6 : 0	17 : 12
Disease HCC : others	6 : 0	13 : 16
Tumor size (mm)	40–75 (60)	12–145 (23)
Operation time (minutes)	341–603 (434)	217–848 (401)
Intraoperative bleeding (mL)	100–750 (300)	NC–3569 (181
Hospital stay (days after surgery)	8–44 (18)	8–52 (15)
Complications (Grade II or above)	1/6	5/29
Mortality	0/6	0/29

Numbers are indicated as range (median).
NC: not countable.
Not significantly different from “extended sectionectomy” group.