Meet the editor

Dr. Georgios Tsoulfas received his medical degree from Brown University School of Medicine and completed his general surgery residency at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, as well as a transplant research fellowship at the Starzl Transplant Institute at the University of Pittsburgh. He then completed a two-year transplantation surgery fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and then joined the

Division of Solid Organ Transplantation and Hepatobiliary Surgery at the University of Rochester Medical Center as an assistant professor of surgery. He has currently moved back to Greece, where he is an associate professor of surgery at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He has published over 90 papers in peer-reviewed journals and in PubMed, as well as 29 book chapters. He is a reviewer for over 40 international journals and is on the editorial boards of several others. He is currently the Vice Chair of the International Relations Committee of the American College of Surgeons and the World President of the International College of Surgeons.

**Preface III**

Introduction **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

Basic Principles in Hepatic Surgery **5**

**Chapter 2 7**

**Chapter 3 23**

**Chapter 4 35**

Types of Hepatic Surgery **47**

**Chapter 5 49**

**Chapter 6 59**

*by Yingzi Ming, Quan Zhuang, Baoren Tu, Gangcheng Kong, Hao Li, Ying Niu,* 

*by Maria Eugenia Cornide-Petronio, Mónica B. Jiménez-Castro, Esther Bujaldon,* 

Hepatic Regeneration Under Warm or Cold Ischemia Conditions:

Use of Intraoperative Ultrasound (IOUS) in Liver Surgery

**Section 1**

**Section 2**

*by Ali I. Yahya*

*by Ali I.Yahya*

*by Luis Cesar Bredt*

**Section 3**

*by Georgios Tsoulfas*

Contents

Introductory Chapter: Hepatic Surgery

Controversies and New Approaches

Damage Control in Liver Surgery

Standard Open Right Hepatectomy

Liver Transplantation in China

*Bo Peng, Junhui Li, Meng Yu and Min Yang*

*Jordi Gracia-Sancho and Carmen Peralta*

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