-Report on Experiments and Clinical Cases-

Endo Mini-Retract^TM Laparoscopic Retractor with a Novel Short-cut Nelaton Catheter for Dividing the Vasculature in Laparoscopic Liver Resection

Youichi Kawano¹, Nobuhiko Taniai¹, Yoshiharu Nakamura¹, Masato Yoshioka¹, Akira Matsushita¹, Yoshiaki Mizuguchi¹, Tetsuya Shimizu¹, Yuki Takane¹, Hiroshi Yoshida² and Eiji Uchida¹

¹Department of Surgery, Nippon Medical School
²Department of Surgery, Nippon Medical School Tama Nagayama Hospital

Laparoscopic hepatectomy has become a widespread procedure in Japan, now that the national medical insurance system covers partial resection and lateral segmentectomy. An important procedure during laparoscopic hepatectomy is the division of the vascular pedicles. In this paper we report a practical and useful method for vascular division with an Endo Mini-Retract^TM retractor and a shortened Nelaton catheter (2.5-mm-diameter) developed in our department.

J Nippon Med Sch 2013; 80: 446-450

Keywords
device, laparoscopic liver resection, Endo Mini-Retract, vascular dividing

Correspondence to
Youichi Kawano, MD, Department of Surgery, Nippon Medical School, 1-1-5 Sendagi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8603, Japan
y-kawano@jichi.ac.jp

Received, August 2, 2013
Accepted, October 1, 2013