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Alvarez. Mini-invasive Surg 2019;3:14 Mini-invasive Surgery
DOI: 10.20517/2574-1225.2019.11

Editorial Open Access

New trends in minimally invasive management of
liver tumors

Fernando Andrés Alvarez 1,2

1 Hepato-pancreato-biliary Surgery Section, General Surgery Service, Clínica Universitaria Reina Fabiola, Córdoba 14014,
Argentina.
2 General Surgery Service, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires C1199ABB, Argentina.
Correspondence to: Dr. Fernando Andrés Alvarez, Hepato-pancreato-biliary Surgery Section, General Surgery Service, Clínica,
Universitaria Reina Fabiola, Córdoba 14014, Argentina. E-mail: fernandoalvarez@curf.ucc.edu.ar

How to cite this article: Alvarez FA. New trends in minimally invasive management of liver tumors. Mini-invasive Surg
2019;3:14. http://dx.doi.org/10.20517/2574-1225.2019.11

Received: 10 Apr 2019 Accepted: 10 Apr 2019 Published: 14 May 2019

Science Editor: Fernando Andrés Alvarez Copy Editor: Cai-Hong Wang Production Editor: Huan-Liang Wu

Surgery has evolved greatly in the last decades, being the development and widespread application of
minimally invasive surgery for a critical protagonist such evolution for nearly all surgical fields. In the field
of hepatobiliary surgery, the introduction of new technological devices along with several improvements
in anesthetic management and surgical techniques have brought us nowadays to a reality in which most
patients suffering from liver tumors can safely benefit from a minimally invasive approach at some point
of their treatment pathway [1-3] . For those patients who are candidates to curative intent liver resection,
laparoscopic approach has gained increasing importance within modern oncological liver surgery, with
[4]
recent evidence showing a faster recovery and uncompromised long-term outcomes . On the other hand,
minimally invasive percutaneous, endovascular or endoscopic palliation has also evolved greatly in recent
years, allowing chemotherapy treatment and a better quality of life for those patients who are not up-front
[1-3]
candidates to surgical resection .

The aim of this Special Issue was to portray in full range the state-of-the-art minimally invasive surgical
techniques that form the up-to-date armamentarium to manage patients with liver tumors. This special
issue would not have been produced without the outstanding contributions of experts from Brazil,
Germany, Italy and India, who present their experience and discuss topics such as minimally-invasive liver
resection for liver tumors both in adults and children, quality-of-life evaluation after laparoscopic liver
resections, enhanced recovery after surgery in liver resections and endoscopic ultrasound-guided drainage
[5-9]
of the biliary tree in malignant obstructions .

I want to express my gratitude to these authors for their time and effort in producing high-quality original
manuscripts that demonstrate the many benefits of minimally invasive management of liver tumors

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