Minimally invasive ver-sus open liver resection for hepatocellular carcinoma in the elderly: international multicentre propensity score-matched study

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Surgery, Poliambulanza Foundation Hospital, Brescia, Italy.
• ² Department of Surgery, Amsterdam UMC location, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
• ³ Cancer Centre Amsterdam, Cancer Treatment and Quality of Life, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
• ⁴ Hepatobiliary Surgery Division, IRCCS San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, Italy.
• ⁵ Department of Surgery, Oncology and Gastroenterology, Hepatobiliary Surgery and Liver Transplantation Unit, Padua University Hospital, Padua, Italy.
• ⁶ Department of General and Oncological Surgery, Umberto I Mauriziano Hospital, Turin, Italy.
• ⁷ Hepatobiliary and Abdominal Transplantation Surgery, Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Riuniti Hospital, Polytechnic University of Marche, Ancona, Italy.
• ⁸ Liver Unit, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, UK.
• ⁹ Department of Surgery, University of Verona, Verona, Italy.
• ¹⁰ Department of Surgery, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK.
• ¹¹ Intervention Centre and Department of Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery, Oslo University Hospital and Institute of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
• ¹² Servei de Cirurgia General i Digestiva, Hospital Doctor Josep Trueta de Girona, Girona, Catalonia, Spain.
• ¹³ Department of Digestive and Hepatobiliary/Pancreatic Surgery, Groeninge Hospital, Kortrijk, Belgium.
• ¹⁴ Department of General and Digestive Surgery, Clinica Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain.
• ¹⁵ Department of Digestive Minimally Invasive Surgery, Antoine Béclère Hospital, Paris, France.
• ¹⁶ Chirurgia Epatobiliare, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore-IRCCS, Rome, Italy.
• ¹⁷ Department of Digestive, Oncologic and Metabolic Surgery, Institut Mutualiste Montsouris, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France.
• ¹⁸ Department of Geriatrics, Poliambulanza Foundation Hospital, Brescia, Italy.