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Laparoscopic Anatomic S7+S8d Resection Preserving Inferior Right Hepatic Vein and S6 with Right Hepatic Vein Transection
Published on: December 30, 2025
[Hepatic-portal Venous Gas after Lung Cancer Surgery]
Kazuyuki Komori1, Toshiharu Tabata, Kimiaki Sato
1Department of Thoracic Surgery, Tohoku Pharmaceutical University Hospital, Sendai, Japan.
Abstract:
An 80-year-old man who was treated by pancreaticoduodenectomy and total gastrectomy for bile duct carcinoma 24 years ago, underwent right upper lobectomy for lung squamous carcinoma. Four days after surgery, he complained of fever and decrease of blood pressure without peritoneal irritation sign. Computed tomography showed hepatic-portal gas with mild pneumatosis intestinalis. He was treated by conservative therapy and recovered.
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