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    Additional partial hepatectomy at the time of portal vein ligation accelerates the regeneration of the future liver remnant

    Portal vein ligation (PVL) has been adopted to induce hypertrophy of the future liver remnant (FLR) in patients with primarily irresectable liver tumor. However, regeneration of the FLR is not always sufficien...

    Chuanfeng Hua, Weiwei Wei, Tianjiao Zhang, Fengming Xu, Olaf Dirsch in Scientific Reports (2021)

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    Size of portally deprived liver lobe after portal vein ligation and additional partial hepatectomy: Result of balancing proliferation and apoptosis

    The liver has the ability to maintain its total size by adjusting the size of the individual liver lobes differently in response to regeneration- and atrophy-stimuli. Portal vein ligation (PVL) drives the liga...

    Weiwei Wei, Chuanfeng Hua, Tianjiao Zhang, Olaf Dirsch, Felix Gremse in Scientific Reports (2020)