Feasibility of Right Upper Transversal Hepatectomy in the Absence of an Inferior Right Hepatic Vein: New Insights regarding This Complex Procedure

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(Patient 3) (a, b) Colorectal liver metastasis with right and middle hepatic vein invasion. (c) Intraoperative aspect of the liver and tumor location. (d) Immediate postoperative aspects of the liver, distal right, and middle hepatic vein ligated at the vena cava confluence. (e) Left hepatic vein draining remnant liver segments. (f) Postoperative segment 6 atrophy.

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