In search of a pathogenesis for impaired liver regeneration after major hepatectomy with extrahepatic bile duct resection: The plot thickens!

Riccardo Pravisani^{1

2}, Umberto Baccarani², Susumu Eguchi¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Surgery, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan.
² Liver-Kidney Transplant Unit - Department of Medicine, University of Udine, Udine, Italy.

Editorial

Riccardo Pravisani et al. Hepatol Res. 2019 Oct.

. 2019 Oct;49(10):1091-1093.

doi: 10.1111/hepr.13414.

Riccardo Pravisani^{1

2}, Umberto Baccarani², Susumu Eguchi¹

¹ Department of Surgery, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan.
² Liver-Kidney Transplant Unit - Department of Medicine, University of Udine, Udine, Italy.

No abstract available

Keywords: extrahepatic bile duct resection; liver regeneration; major hepatectomy; post-hepatectomy liver failure.

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