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ORANGE SEGMENTS: Open Versus Laparoscopic Parenchymal Preserving Postero-Superior Liver Segment Resection

Sponsor: Maastricht University Medical Center

Summary

The international and multicentre ORANGE SEGMENTS - Trial is a prospective, double blinded, randomized controlled study comparing patients undergoing parenchymal preserving resection of postero-superior liver segments (involving one or two of segments 4a, 7, 8). All patients will be participating in an enhanced recovery programme. Primary outcome is time to functional recovery. Secondary study parameters include hospital length of stay, intraoperative blood loss, operation time, liver specific morbidity, readmission percentage, resection margin, quality of life, body image and cosmesis , reasons for delay of discharge after functional recovery, long term incidence of incisional hernias, hospital and societal costs during one year, time to adjuvant chemotherapy initiation, overall five-year survival.

Official title: The ORANGE SEGMENTS - Trial: an International Multicentre Randomized Controlled Trial of Open Versus Laparoscopic Parenchymal Preserving Postero-superior Liver Segment Resection

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