Difficulty of Laparoscopic Liver Resection: Proposal for a New Classification.

TL;DR: Laparoscopic posterosuperior liver segment resection is technically challenging, but short-term outcomes are comparable between open and minimally invasive surgery performed by a single surgeon.

TL;DR: Conversion during LLR should be anticipated in ICC patients with prior upper abdominal surgery or tumor proximity to major vessels as features as features, and unplanned conversions showed longer operative times and higher rates of major morbidity.

TL;DR: EZR enables the application of statistical functions that are frequently used in clinical studies, such as survival analyses, including competing risk analyses and the use of time-dependent covariates, receiver operating characteristics analyses, meta-analyses, sample size calculation and so on, by point-and-click access.

TL;DR: This 5-year evaluation provides strong evidence that the classification of complications is valid and applicable worldwide in many fields of surgery, and subjective, inaccurate, or confusing terms such as “minor or major” should be removed from the surgical literature.

TL;DR: In this cohort of initially healthy women, nonfasting triglyceride levels were associated with incident cardiovascular events, independent of traditional cardiac risk factors, levels of other lipids, and markers of insulin resistance; by contrast, fasting triglycerides showed little independent relationship.

TL;DR: A uniform definition and severity grading of bile leakage is proposed to enable a standardized comparison of the results of different clinical trials and may facilitate an objective evaluation of diagnostic and therapeutic modalities in the field of hepatobiliary and pancreatic operative therapy.