TY - JOUR
T1 - James Cantlie's early messages for hepatic surgeons: how the concept of pre-operative portal vein occlusion was defined
AU - van Gulik, Thomas M.
AU - van den Esschert, Jacomina W.
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - In 1897, James Cantlie from Scotland published his findings of an autopsy on a patient in which the right side of the liver was atrophied whereas the left side of the liver showed a marked hypertrophy. He noted the hepatic vessels to the atrophied side to be obliterated. From this observation, he drew two important conclusions. First, that the transition of the atrophied part to the hypertrophied part defined the anatomical mid-line of the liver, according to the portal division of blood supply to the liver. This line we now know as Cantlie's line which he described connecting the fundus of the gallbladder with the centre of the inferior vena cava. Second, he foresaw that the potential of one half of the liver to hypertrophy when the other half is deprived of its blood supply, could be used to the advantage of hepatic resection. It would take another 85 years, however, before the first clinical, pre-operative portal vein embolization was carried out in Japan in 1982
AB - In 1897, James Cantlie from Scotland published his findings of an autopsy on a patient in which the right side of the liver was atrophied whereas the left side of the liver showed a marked hypertrophy. He noted the hepatic vessels to the atrophied side to be obliterated. From this observation, he drew two important conclusions. First, that the transition of the atrophied part to the hypertrophied part defined the anatomical mid-line of the liver, according to the portal division of blood supply to the liver. This line we now know as Cantlie's line which he described connecting the fundus of the gallbladder with the centre of the inferior vena cava. Second, he foresaw that the potential of one half of the liver to hypertrophy when the other half is deprived of its blood supply, could be used to the advantage of hepatic resection. It would take another 85 years, however, before the first clinical, pre-operative portal vein embolization was carried out in Japan in 1982
U2 - https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1477-2574.2009.00124.x
DO - https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1477-2574.2009.00124.x
M3 - Editorial
C2 - 20495650
SN - 1365-182X
VL - 12
SP - 81
EP - 83
JO - HPB: The official journal of the International Hepato Pancreato Biliary Association
JF - HPB: The official journal of the International Hepato Pancreato Biliary Association
IS - 2
ER -