Abstract
Hepatolithiasis is also known as Oriental biliary hepatitis. As its name implies, this disease occurs primarily in the East Asian region, including mainland China, Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, and Japan. In contrast, this disease is rare in the west, and the hepatolithiasis morbidity rate is 0.6–1.3 % in western countries [1, 2]. However, the morbidity rate in Asian is very high, 2.1 % in Japan, 11.7 % in Malaysia, 17.0 % in South Korea, 38.8 % in mainland China, and 47.3 % in Taiwan [3]. The incidence in Latin America is also as high as approximately 2 %, especially in Brazil [4, 5]. Additionally, with the increasing mobility of the population, the morbidity rate of this disease in western countries has recently increased.
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Chen, Z., Wang, Q. (2016). Hepatolithiasis Hepatectomy. In: Yan, L. (eds) Operative Techniques in Liver Resection. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-7411-6_20
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