Surgery has passed through an intuitive and an empirical era and has now entered its modern phase. The enormous progress in biomedicine, the rise of evidence-based medicine and the consensus on the need for humanistic patient care, have laid a foundation for a new surgical paradigm. Based on a series of studies and practices, we advocated the concept of 'Precision Surgery'. It covers the entire operation-centered surgical practice. The strategy of precision surgery is to seek a balance of maximizing the removal of the target lesion, while maximizing the functional liver remnant and minimizing surgical invasiveness. We propose that the concept of precision surgery should be considered for wider application within liver surgery and various surgical fields, and finally realize the multi-objective optimization with certainty-based practice to ensure maximized recovery for each patient.
Consensus ; Evidence-Based Medicine ; General Surgery ; trends ; Humans

OBJECTIVETo analyze the surgical management of incidental gallbladder cancer (IGBC) discovered during or after laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) and to evaluate the associated factors of survival.

METHODSA retrospective analysis of patients with IGBC between January 2002 and December 2013 was performed. A total of 10 080 consecutive patients underwent LC operation for presumed gallbladder benign disease in Chinese People's Liberation Army General hospital. And among them, 83 patients were histologically diagnosed as IGBC. Data covering clinical characteristics, surgery records, local pathological stage, histological features and factors for long term survival were reviewed. The survival analysis was performed using Kaplan-Meier method, and the results were examined using the log-rank test.For multivariate statistical analyses of prognostic factors, a Cox proportional hazards model was carried out.

RESULTSA total of 83 patients with IGBC:68.7% females (57/83), median age of 61 years (range 34-83 years). There were 47 cases accepted the initial simple LC, 18 cases converted to open extended radical cholecystectomy, 16 cases with radical second resection, and 2 cases with re-laparotomy; the 5-year survival rates for each group were 89.4%, 38.9%, 87.5%, and 0, respectively. The 5-year survival rates in T1a, T1b, T2, and T3 stage patients were 95.7% (22/23), 90.0% (18/20), 75.0% (15/20), and 40.0% (8/20), respectively. Univariate analysis for prognostic factors associated with cancer-specific death showed that depth of invasion, lymph-node status, vascular or neural invasion, tumor differentiation, extent of resection, bile spillage during prior LC and type of surgery were statistically significant.In multivariate analysis, depth of invasion, extent of resection and bile spillage were the most important prognostic factors related to both cancer-specific mortality and disease relapse (P < 0.05).

CONCLUSIONSSimple LC is appropriate for T1a patients with clear margin and unbroken gallbladder. An extended radical resection in patients with T1b or more is highly recommended, and provided as a potentially curative R0 resection only if it is necessary.

Cholecystectomy ; Cholecystectomy, Laparoscopic ; Female ; Gallbladder Neoplasms ; surgery ; Humans ; Laparoscopy ; Multivariate Analysis ; Neoplasm Staging ; Proportional Hazards Models ; Retrospective Studies ; Survival Analysis ; Survival Rate

OBJECTIVETo evaluate the effect of techniques of precise liver surgery for donor hepatectomy in living donor liver transplantation.

METHODSEighty-nine donors aged from 19 to 57 years were performed by the same surgical team from June 2006 to December 2013 in Chinese People's Liberation Army General Hospital.Individualized surgical program were developed according to preoperative imaging examination and hepatic functional reserve examination. The evaluation included liver function, liver volume, vascular anatomy and bile duct anatomy. According to the results after the operation, preoperative evaluation accuracy, postoperative donor liver function and postoperative complications were analyzed. ANOVA analysis was used to compare the difference of graft volume by two-dimensional, three-dimensional calculation method and actual postoperative graft weight. Pearson correlation test and linear regression analysis were used to verify the correlation between the estimated graft volume each method and actual graft postoperative weight.

RESULTSAll the 89 cases operation protocol as following, there were 5 cases with left lateral lobe graft, 10 cases with left lobe liver graft, 74 cases with right lobe graft. There were 59 cases with middle hepatic vein (MHV) harvested, and 30 cases without MHV. The mean graft volume by two-dimensional, three-dimensional calculation method and actual postoperative graft weight were (656.2±134.1) ml, (631.7±143.2) ml and (614.5±137.7) ml respectively. ANOVA analysis results showed that there were no statistically significant difference in the three methods (P>0.05). Compared to the actual postoperative graft weight, the average error rate of the two methods were 7.9% and 5.3% respectively. Pearson correlation test showed the graft volume calculated by two-dimensional and three-dimensional methods had a significantly positive correlation with actual graft weight (r=0.821, 0.890, P<0.01) and linear regression analyze showed the R2 were 0.674 and 0.792, respectively. The accuracy rate of preoperative evaluation about portal vein, hepatic vein, hepatic artery and bile duct were 100%, 100%, 97.8% and 95.5%, respectively. The preoperative plan and postoperative practical scheme coincidence rate was 95.5%. Overall donor complication rate was 7.4%. All donors were alive. Sixteen donors received right lobe hepatectomy with gallbladder preserved had a good liver function and gallbladder function.

CONCLUSIONThrough the precise preoperative evaluation, surgical planning, fine operation and excellent postoperative management, precise liver surgery technique can ensure the safety of donor in living donor liver transplantation.

Adult ; Bile Ducts ; Body Weight ; Hepatectomy ; methods ; Hepatic Artery ; Hepatic Veins ; Humans ; Linear Models ; Liver Transplantation ; methods ; Living Donors ; Middle Aged ; Portal Vein ; Postoperative Complications ; Postoperative Period ; Young Adult