Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Surgical removal of all or part of the liver.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Surgical removal of a part of the liver.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun surgery The surgical removal of all or part of the liver.

Etymologies

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hepato- + -ectomy

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Examples

  • Regeneration and assessment of liver function in donors and recipients following partial hepatectomy and living donor transplantation using molecular techniques, as part of a multicenter NIH cohort study

    Basic Biliary Atresia Research 2010

  • Regeneration and assessment of liver function in donors and recipients following partial hepatectomy and living donor transplantation using molecular techniques, as part of a multicenter NIH cohort study

    Basic Science Liver Disease Research 2010

  • After hepatectomy it is not possible to provoke hyperglycemia, whatever the agent or procedure employed, whether the animal were diabetic or not before the liver was removed.

    Bernardo Houssay - Nobel Lecture 1964

  • In order to improve surgical outcome, it is necessary to evaluate the potential risk factors affecting long-term survival and to establish guidelines for the appropriate use of hepatectomy for caudate lobectomy.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

  • The results suggest that surgeons should pay more attention to the subsegmental location of the tumor, and that extended hepatectomy should be used when possible in order to achieve adequate intraoperative tumor margins, and so improve long-term survival after surgery.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

  • In order to improve surgical outcome, it is necessary to evaluate the potential risk factors affecting long-term survival and to establish guidelines for the appropriate use of hepatectomy for caudate lobectomy.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

  • They found that hepatectomy was an effective treatment for caudate lobe HCC, and that subsegmental location of the tumor, the presence of liver cirrhosis and the size of the surgical margin affected long-term survival.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

  • They found that hepatectomy was an effective treatment for caudate lobe

    THE MEDICAL NEWS Editors 2010

  • The results suggest that surgeons should pay more attention to the subsegmental location of the tumor, and that extended hepatectomy should be used when possible in order to achieve adequate intraoperative tumor margins, and so improve long-term survival after surgery.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

  • They found that hepatectomy was an effective treatment for caudate lobe HCC, and that subsegmental location of the tumor, the presence of liver cirrhosis and the size of the surgical margin affected long-term survival.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

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