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Fig. 1 | Patient Safety in Surgery

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From: Monitoring of liver function in a 73-year old patient undergoing ‘Associating Liver Partition and Portal vein ligation for Staged hepatectomy’: case report applying the novel liver maximum function capacity test

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Pre- and postoperative CT-scan of the liver. a Preoperative CT-scan depicting the tumor lesion within the right liver lobe (marked pink) and the resulting future liver remnant (FLR; marked purple). b CT-volumetry 7 days after the first step of ALPPS already resulted in a significant increase of the FLR. The extended right liver lobe (wrapped in a silicone matting) meanwhile showed signs of necrosis following ligation of the right portal vein. c CT-volumetry 11 days after the first step of ALPPS showed further growth of the FLR (marked red). POD = postoperative day

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