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What are the basic principles of hepatic resection?

The basic principles of hepatic resection are complete removal of the lesion without patient death.

Jarrell, Bruce E. NMS Surgery Casebook. Baltimore, MD: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2003: 197.

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Anonymous said...

Have you not already appreciated the picture of the total thyroidectomy in the endocrine chapter. I never understood them until the casebook illustration...of a thyroid becoming a blank space.