Surgical approach for hepatic caudate lobectomy: Review of 401 cases.

摘要

Resection of the caudate lobe (segments I, IX, or both) of the liver often presents a technical challenge, even to accomplished hepatic surgeons. It is an autonomous segment of the liver that is surgically difficult to approach because of its location deep in the hepatic parenchyma beneath the confluence of the main hepatic (left and middle) veins and between the porta hepatis, the liga-mentum venosum, and the inferior vena cava (IVC).