Hepatectomy (Liver Resection)
Hepatectomy (Liver Resection) Surgery Dubai, UAE
What is Hepatectomy (Liver Resection)?
A liver resection, or hepatectomy, is a surgical procedure to remove part of your liver. You can have up to two-thirds of your liver removed as long as the rest of your liver is healthy. If you have liver disease, you may have a smaller portion removed. Your liver can grow back. If your remaining liver is healthy, it’ll grow back to its former size.
Why is liver resection performed?
You may have a liver resection to treat liver disease, or when you want to donate part of your liver for living donor liver transplantation.
Causes of disease that may require hepatectomy
Surgeons mostly perform a partial liver resection to remove a cancerous, precancerous or benign (noncancerous) tumor. Liver cancer can be primary — which means that it originates in the liver — or it can be secondary, which means that it originates in another organ and spreads.
1. Hepatocellular carcinoma (primary liver cancer).
2. Cholangiocarcinoma (primary liver cancer).
3. Metastatic colorectal cancer (secondary liver cancer).
