Laparoscopic liver resection in the treatment of HCC with liver cirrhosis: would it provide superiority to conventional open hepatectomy?

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Yuichiro Otsuka et al. Hepatobiliary Surg Nutr. 2017 Oct.

. 2017 Oct;6(5):356-358.

doi: 10.21037/hbsn.2017.06.02.

¹ Division of General and Gastroenterological Surgery, Department of Surgery, Toho University Faculty of Medicine, Ota-ku, Tokyo, Japan.

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