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Multidisciplinary strategies are commonly used to treat liver metastases of various origins, especially colorectal cancer. Progress in surgical techniques and the use of appropriate devices have opened the fields for a laparoscopic approach to increasingly complex procedures, like liver resection. Patients benefit from shorter hospital stay, less postoperative pain, reduced postoperative morbidity and better cosmetic results. According to a meta-analysis, delaying initiation of adjuvant chemotherapy after curative surgery for stage III colorectal cancer was associated with a statistically significant decrease in overall survival. It is tempting to assume that these results may be assignable to metastatic disease. Therefore, laparoscopic liver resection offers a substantial contribution to multimodal treatment of liver metastases.
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Emmanuel, K., Augschöll, C. & Öfner, D. Laparoscopic liver resection – a substantial progress towards multimodal treatment of metastases. memo 4, 167–168 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12254-011-0284-1
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