SAGES/JSES Postgraduate Course II
Minimally Invasive Surgical Management of Hepatic Disease
For each postgraduate course, program materials will be available at the Registration Desk beginning at 4:00 PM on Tuesday, March 12, 2002. Fee includes course materials, a syllabus, Wednesday evening exhibit reception, continental breakfast, and breaks.
Thursday, March 14, 2002
Time: 7:00 - 11:00 AM
Duration of Course: Half Day
Course Co-Chairs: Frederick L. Greene, MD and Masao Tanaka, MD
Course Description:
The course will review the anatomy and discuss imaging studies appropriate for planning minimal access procedures for benign and malignant liver disease. Technical approaches and the instrumentation for management of solid and cystic lesions will be discussed. New methods of ablation of malignant liver lesions will be presented and outcome studies and pertinent literature will be reviewed.
Objectives:
To present the indications and contraindications for the laparoscopic management of benign and malignant hepatic disease.
To discuss technical issues relating to resection of benign and malignant lesions utilizing laparoscopic techniques.
To discuss minimal access ablative techniques used in the management of hepatic malignancy.
To identify appropriate imaging techniques for the preoperative and intraoperative planning of minimal access hepatic resection.
I. Minimal Access Liver Course
7:00 - 7:20 AM
Review of Hepatic Anatomy and Imaging As a Primer for Minimally Invasive Approaches
F. Greene, MD
7:20 - 7:40 AM
Diagnosis and Tissue Sampling - Tools of the Trade
D. Easter, MD
7:40 - 8:00 AM
Intraoperative Ultrasound Guidance in the Management of Hepatic Lesions
D. Birkett, MD
8:00 - 8:20 AM
Preoperative and Intraoperative Physiologic Assessment
P. Hansen, MD
8:20 - 8:50 AM
Discussion
8:50 - 9:10 AM
Break
II. Minimal Access Liver Course II
9:10 - 9:30 AM
Management of Cystic Lesions of the Liver
N. Katkhouda, MD
9:30 - 9:50 AM
Laparoscopic Liver Resection: Technical Aspects of Left Lateral Segmentectomy
H. Kaneko, MD
9:50 - 10:10 AM
Minimally Invasive Surgery for Hepatic Malignancy - Laparoscopic Liver Resection and Endoscopic Thermal Ablation
G. Wakabayashi, MD
10:10 - 10:30 AM
Comparison of Resection vs. Ablative Techniques - Outcomes and Results
A. Lefor, MD
10:30 - 11:00 AM
Discussion
On behalf of the World Congress, SAGES acknowledges a generous educational grant in support of this program from Valleylab, Inc.
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