Not all reoperative laparoscopic liver resection procedures are feasible for hepatolithiasis patients with a history of biliary surgery
Wen-Jun Zhang, Da-Fei Dai, Xiao-Peng Chen, Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Wannan Medical College, Wuhu 241000, Anhui Province, China
Wen-Jun Zhang, Da-Fei Dai, Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, The Fifth Clinical Medical College of Anhui Medical University, Wuhu 241000, Anhui Province, China
Guang Chen, Department of Pediatrics, The First Affiliated Hospital of Wannan Medical College, Wuhu 241000, Anhui Province, China
Co-first authors: Wen-Jun Zhang and Guang Chen.
Co-corresponding authors: Xiao-Peng Chen and Da-Fei Dai.
Author contributions: Zhang WJ, Chen G and Dai DF drafted the initial manuscript; Zhang WJ, Dai DF and Chen XP collected the data; Chen G and Chen XP analyzed the data; Chen XP designed the study and critically reviewed the manuscript; all authors have read and approved the final version to be submitted.
Supported by The Key Research and Development Program of Anhui Province of China, No. 1804h08020273; and The Key Research Project of Health Commission of Anhui Province of China, No. AHWJ2022a016.
Institutional review board statement: This study was reviewed and approved by the Institutional Review Board of The First Affiliated Hospital (Yijishan Hospital) of Wannan Medical College (No. [2022]106).
Clinical trial registration statement: This study is registered at ClinicalTrials.gov (
www.chictr.org.cn). The registration number is ChiCTR2300072545.
Informed consent statement: All study participants, or their legal guardian, provided informed written consent prior to study enrollment.
Conflict-of-interest statement: All the authors report no relevant conflicts of interest for this article.
CONSORT 2010 statement: The authors have read the CONSORT 2010 Statement, and the manuscript was prepared and revised according to the CONSORT 2010 Statement.
Data sharing statement: No additional data are available.
Open Access: This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See:
https://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Corresponding author: Xiao-Peng Chen, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Wannan Medical College, No. 2 Zheshanxi Road, Jinghu District, Wuhu 241000, Anhui Province, China.
drchenxp@wnmc.edu.cn
Received: February 10, 2025
Revised: April 4, 2025
Accepted: April 18, 2025
Published online: May 27, 2025
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