ReviewCancers2022
Recent Advances in Minimally Invasive Liver Resection for Colorectal Cancer Liver Metastases-A Review.
Review in Cancers, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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12 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 25 citations in OpenAlex.
- Comparing Open, Laparoscopic and Robotic Liver Resection for Metastatic Colorectal Cancer-A Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis.Journal of surgical oncology · 2025Pooled it
- Laparoscopic versus open liver resection for colorectal liver metastasis: an umbrella review.Frontiers in oncology · 2024Pooled it
- Clinical and biological impact of conversion on outcomes of minimally invasive liver surgery: a multimodal analysis.Updates in surgery · 2026Article
- Safety of Simultaneous Robot-Assisted Resection of Colorectal Malignancy and Synchronous Liver Metastases.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Does complexity compromise outcomes in robotic hepatectomy?Surgical endoscopy · 2026Article
- Effect of unplanned conversion to open surgery on resection margins and postoperative complications in minimally-invasive resection of colorectal liver metastases: A systematic review and meta-analysis with meta-regression.Annals of hepato-biliary-pancreatic surgery · 2026Article
- A bibliometric and visual analysis of colorectal cancer liver metastasis research from 2015 to 2025.Discover oncology · 2026Article
- Robotic liver surgery for metastatic disease: A review of safety, feasibility, and outcomes.World journal of gastrointestinal surgery · 2025Article
- "Two-stage resection of synchronous liver metastases in colorectal cancer leads to a survival benefit: a retrospective comparative cohort study".Langenbeck's archives of surgery · 2025Article
- Impact of autonomic nerve-oriented anatomical laparoscopic surgery on recovery in patients with colorectal cancer.World journal of gastrointestinal surgery · 2025Article
- Is It Worth Performing Intersphincteric Resection in Patients Having Rectal Adenocarcinoma with Oligometastasis.Indian journal of surgical oncology · 2025Article
- Preoperative imaging of colorectal liver metastases: what the radiologist and the multidisciplinary team need to know.The British journal of radiology · 2024Review
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Abstract
Minimally invasive surgical (MIS) approaches to liver resection have been increasingly adopted into use for surgery on colorectal cancer liver metastases. The purpose of this review is to evaluate the outcomes when comparing laparoscopic liver resection (LLR), robotic liver resection (RLR), and open liver resection (OLR) for colorectal cancer liver metastases (CRLM) in 39 studies (2009-2022) that include a case-matched series, propensity score analyses, and three randomized clinical trials. LLR is associated with less intraoperative blood loss and shorter hospital stay compared with OLR. LLR can be performed with comparable operative time. LLR has similar rates of perioperative complications and mortality as OLR. There were no significant differences in 5-year overall or disease-free survival between approaches. Robotic liver resection (RLR) has comparable perioperative safety to LLR and may improve rates of R0 resection in certain patients. Finally, MIS approaches to the hepatic resection of CRLM reduce the time from liver resection to initiation of adjuvant chemotherapy. Thus, MIS liver surgery should be considered in the array of options for patients with CRLM, though thoughtful patient selection and surgeon experience should be part of that decision.
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