Decoding Surgical Complexity: Measuring the Impact of Operative Difficulty on Quality Outcomes Following Hepatectomy for Liver Cancer over Two Decades.

Cancers (Basel) · 2026 · PMC12897200 · PMID 41681879

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In patients with colorectal liver metastases, there was a trend towards worse overall survival and disease-free survival with increasing operative difficulty, however, this did not reach statistical significance.

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