Laparoscopic liver resection for malignancies confined to Couinaud's segment VII in the robotic surgery era.

We read with pleasure papers by Cai et al . and Jia et al . published in HepatoBiliary Surgery and Nutrition , 2018, Volume 7, Issue 2 and 4, respectively (1,2). Both papers introduced comprehensive up-to-date literature reviews on indications and patient selection, surgical instruments, techniques, and outcomes of laparoscopic liver resections (LLRs) (1,2).

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[2]  Kit-fai Lee,et al.  Robotic resection for posterosuperior liver lesions: is it really superior to laparoscopic resection? , 2019, Hepatobiliary surgery and nutrition.

[3]  U. Boggi,et al.  International consensus statement on robotic hepatectomy surgery in 2018 , 2019, World journal of gastroenterology.

[4]  M. Paganelli,et al.  Theory of Relativity for Posterosuperior Segments of the Liver , 2019, Annals of Surgical Oncology.

[5]  R. Troisi,et al.  A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Comparing the Short- and Long-Term Outcomes for Laparoscopic and Open Liver Resections for Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Updated Results from the European Guidelines Meeting on Laparoscopic Liver Surgery, Southampton, UK, 2017 , 2018, Annals of Surgical Oncology.

[6]  Bo Li,et al.  Laparoscopic liver resection: a review of current indications and surgical techniques. , 2018, Hepatobiliary surgery and nutrition.

[7]  Xiujun Cai.  Laparoscopic liver resection: the current status and the future. , 2018, Hepatobiliary surgery and nutrition.

[8]  G. Wakabayashi,et al.  The Southampton Consensus Guidelines for Laparoscopic Liver Surgery: From Indication to Implementation , 2017, Annals of surgery.

[9]  K. Hasegawa,et al.  Surgical Indications and Procedures for Resection of Hepatic Malignancies Confined to Segment VII , 2016, Annals of surgery.

[10]  A. Coratti,et al.  Liver Malignancies in Segment VII: The Role of Robot-assisted Surgery. , 2015, Annals of surgery.