A new technical aspect of ultrasound-guided liver surgery.

摘要: Nowadays, resective hepatic surgery should be considered an echo-guided surgical procedure to guarantee that effective anatomical resection is accomplished. We describe a simple and original technique guided by intraoperative ultrasonography (IOUS), called the hooking technique, enables ligation sites of intrahepatic vessels during systematic segmentectomy chosen precisely. Together with other IOUS-guided techniques described previously, provides further for successful execution radical liver resection.