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A century ago, Elliot [1] was horrified with his own experience with hepatic parenchymal dissection, and comparing it with others, concluded the liver was “so friable, so full of gaping vessels, and so evidently incapable of being sutured that it had always seemed impossible to successfully manage large wounds of its substance.”
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Hodgson, W.J.B. (1994). Parenchymal dissection techniques. In: Sugarbaker, P.H. (eds) Hepatobiliary Cancer. Cancer Treatment and Research, vol 69. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2604-9_18
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