Totally Robotic Caudate Lobe Liver Resection

Rodrigo Surjan, MD, PhD

Product Details
Product ID: ACS-6105
Year Produced: 2020
Length: 5 min.


Minimally invasive hepatic resection has well known advantages over the traditional open approach. Inherent limitations of laparoscopy make some major hepatic procedures and the resection of upper and posterior hepatic segments a great technical challenge. The robotic approach overcomes most of these limitations and this technology is most useful in the resection of the deeply located caudate lobe. We present our technique for robotic caudate lobe resection, using the first totally robotic isolate resection of the caudate lobe to treat a biphenotypic hepatocholangiocarcinoma to illustrate the procedure.