Associating liver partition and portal vein ligation or combined transarterial chemo-embolisation and portal vein embolisation for staged hepatectomy for HBV-related hepatocellular carcinoma

Many patients with hepatocellular carcinoma are diagnosed with large tumours at an advanced stage.In addition,conditions such as liver fibrosis,cirrhosis,portal hypertension,viral load,and portal vein thrombosis due to either non-neoplastic or portal vein tumour thrombus limit the indications for surgical management to a select subset of individuals(1).