Vol 6, No 5 (October 17, 2017): Hepatobiliary Surgery and Nutrition (Special Focus on Robotic Hepatobiliary Surgery Part II)

How We Do It on Robotic Hepatobiliary Surgery1

Robotic transduodenal excision of ampullary tumour
Francis C. H. Wong, Eric C. H. Lai, Daniel T. M. Chung, Chung Ngai Tang

Original Article on Nutrition

Changes in dietary patterns and body composition within 12 months of liver transplantation
Simone M. McCoy, Katrina L. Campbell, Annie-Claude M. Lassemillante, Matthew P. Wallen, Jonathan Fawcett, Maree Jarrett, Graeme A. Macdonald, Ingrid J. Hickman

Editorial

Appropriate surgical therapy for patients with hepatocellular carcinoma beyond Milan criteria
Kwang Yeol Paik
Expanding the boundaries of Milan
Catherine Garcia, Luis F. Acosta, Roberto Gedaly
Liver transplantation for the solitary intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma less than 2 cm in diameter
Nobuhisa Akamatsu, Yoshihiro Sakamoto, Kiyoshi Hasegawa
Should we expand liver transplant criteria to cirrhotic patients with intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma?
Henrik Petrowsky
Expanding transplantation of patients with a liver cancer without harming allocation: a priority in the era of scarce donation
Massimo Colombo, Guido Torzilli
Searching the ideal hepatocellular carcinoma patient for liver transplantation: are the Toronto criteria a step in the right direction?
Falk Rauchfuß, Felix Dondorf, René Fahrner, Hans-Michael Tautenhahn, Michael Ardelt, Utz Settmacher
Patient-derived xenografts, a multi-faceted in vivo model enlightening research on rare liver cancer biology
Massimo Moro, Michela Casanova, Luca Roz
Avatars to personalized medicine: of mice and men
Matthias Ilmer, Michael Berger
Clinical patterns of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD): a multicenter prospective study
Claudia P. Oliveira, José Tadeu Stefano, Flair José Carrilho
NAFLD—which patients should have hepatocellular carcinoma surveillance?
Zeynep C. Elcioglu, Helen L. Reeves
Laparoscopic liver resection in the treatment of HCC with liver cirrhosis: would it provide superiority to conventional open hepatectomy?
Yuichiro Otsuka, Hironori Kaneko
Implementing genetic screening for the management of hepatic disease
Brittany Dewdney, Lionel Hebbard

Images in Clinical Medicine

Acute on chronic pancreatitis in a young female
Pavan Kumar, Saket Kumar, Abhijit Chandra

Disclosure:

1. The series “Robotic Hepatobiliary Surgery” was commissioned by the editorial office, Hepatobiliary Surgery and Nutrition without any sponsorship or funding. Yuman Fong, Yanghee Woo and Pier C. Giulianotti served as the unpaid Guest Editors for the series.

2. The series “Meet the professor” was commissioned by the editorial office, Hepatobiliary Surgery and Nutrition without any sponsorship or funding.