Minimally Invasive Surgery of the Liver

Foreword.-Preface.-Minimally invasive surgery:an update.- Minimally invasive surgery of the liver:an update.- The learning curve:experimental surgery.- The learning curve:teaching in robotic surgery.- Technology in the operating room:the laparoscopic column.- Technology in the operating room:the robot .- Anesthesia.- Costs and benefits, a triad in comparison:open , laparoscopic, robotic surgery.- Transection devices .- The Louisville consensus conference.- Indications to surgery:laparoscopic or robotic approach.- Diagnostic laparoscopy and allied technologies.- Intraoperative ultrasound.- A new anatomical vision:the liver screen-surgery.- Encircling the pedicle for the Pringle manoeuvre.- Combined minimally invasive surgery:liver and colon-rectum.- Minimally invasive procedures for liver trauma.- Minimally invasive surgery in the cirrhotic patient.- Repeated mininvasive surgery.-Treatment of the resection surface.-Delivery of the specimen.- Short and long-term follow up.-Ligation of the portal branch.-Tumorectomy.-An introduction to Segmentectomy.- Segment I: robot.- Segment II: VL.-Segment III: VL.- Segment IV:VL.- Segment IVa: VL.- Segment V: VL.- Segment VI: VL.- Segment VII: robot.- Segment VIII: robot.- Left lobectomy : VL.- Left lobectomy for living donor:VL.- Right hepatectomy: VL.- Right hepatectomy: robot.- Left Hepatectomy: VL.- Left hepatectomy: robot.- Complications.- The Italian experience in minimally invasive surgery of the liver: an overview.- Perspectives: where shall we be 20 years from now?.- Analytical Index.