Laparoscopic liver resection: Wedge resections to living donor hepatectomy, are we heading in the right direction?

Table 3 Some of the major laparoscopic liver resection for hepatocellular cancer series

Ref.	Year	PTS (n)	Cirrhosis present (%)	Tumor size (cm)	Morbidity(%)	Mortality(%)	OS(1 yr/5 yr, %)	RFS(1 yr/5 yr, %)
Dagher et al[36]	2010	163	73.6	3.6	22	1.2	92.6/64.9	77.5/32.2
Aldrighetti et al[99]	2010	16	56.2	4 + 2.2	25	0	-	-
Nitta et al[100]	2010	15	80	4.5	11.6	0	-	-
Yoon et al[39]	2010	69	55	3.1	21.7	0	90.4 (3 yr)	60.4 (3 yr)
Cherqui et al[101]	2009	37	74	-	34	0	-/72	-/44
Bryant et al[32]	2009	64	28	3.5	15.1	0	70 (3 yr)/65 (5 yr)	46 (3 yr)/34 (5 yr)
Chen et al[95]	2008	116	100	2.1	6	0	90/61	-
Buell et al[4]	2008	36	56	4.6	16	1.6	90/80	23 (2 yr)
Kaneko et al[51]	2005	30	100	3	10	0	97/61	87/31
Teramoto et al[102]	2005	11	67	2	26	0	100/80	75/40

OS: Overall survival; RFS: Recurrence-free survival.