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               Table 1. Overview of existing literature for minimally-invasive liver resection in children
                                                                                                   Level of
                Year    Ref.     Article type  Study population  Age    n       Type of resection
                                                                                                   evidence
                                                                           Total laparoscopic left lateral
                2006  Yoon et al. [44]   Case report  Mesenchymal hamartoma  5 years  1              4
                                                                           sectionectomy
                2007  Dutta et al. [42]  Case report  Mesenchymal hamartoma  2 years  1  Successful non-anatomical resection  4
                     Tabrizian and
                2010      [34]  Case report  Congential hepatic cyst  2 months  1  Complete laparoscopic cyst excision  4
                     Midulla
                                                             9 months,     Totally laparoscopic partial
                           [45]
                2011  Kim et al.  Case series  Hepatoblastoma           2                            4
                                                             2 years       hepatectomy
                                                             6 weeks
                          [43]
                2012  Oh et al.  Case report  Congential hepatic cyst   1  Complete laparoscopic cyst excision  4
                                                             premature
                                                             5 days, 7 weeks,
                2016  Linden et al. [35]  Case series  Congential hepatic cyst  6 years,   4  Complete laparoscopic cyst excision  4
                                                             14 years
                     Veenstra and   Restrospective  Benign and malignant liver  9 months to   Segmentectomy, sectionectomy, or
                2016      [47]                                          36                           3
                     Koffron    review     tumors            17 years      hemihepatectomy
               Nevertheless, evidence regarding the topic remains scarce and of poor quality, and further efforts must take
               place to evaluate the full impact of MILR in children. Most importantly, applying this surgical innovation
               should not compromise prognosis of children with hepatic tumors.


               DECLARATIONS
               Acknowledgement
               We thank Khrisna Menon, MD, Liver Transplantation, Institute of Liver Studies, Liver Transplant Surgery,
               King’s College Hospital, National Health Service Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom for revising
               the manuscript and for providing the graphical illustration shown in this article.

               Authors’ contributions
               Literature search, analyse and wrote the manuscript: Cortes-Cerisuelo M, Berger M

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               Conflicts of interest
               All authors declared that there are no conflicts of interest.


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               Copyright
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