Society guideline links: Liver resection and ablation

Introduction — This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.

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Links to related guidelines are provided separately. (See "Society guideline links: Hepatocellular carcinoma".)

International

●International Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association (IHPBA): Liver resection guidelines

●International experts consensus guidelines on robotic liver resection (2023)

●Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) Society: Guidelines for perioperative care for liver surgery (2022)

●Expert consensus guidelines: How to safely perform minimally invasive anatomic liver resection (2021)

●IHPBA: Consensus guidelines on liver transplantation for non-resectable colorectal liver metastases (2021)

●Practical guidelines for performing laparoscopic liver resection based on the second international laparoscopic liver consensus conference (2018)

United States

●Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES)/Americas Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association (AHPBA): Guidelines for the use of microwave and radiofrequency liver ablation for the surgical treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma or colorectal liver metastases less than 5 cm (2022)

●SAGES/AHPBA: Guidelines for the use of minimally invasive surgery for the surgical treatment of colorectal liver metastases (CRLM) (2022)

Europe

●European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM): Procedure guideline for the treatment of liver cancer and liver metastases with intra-arterial radioactive compounds (2022)

●Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe (CIRSE): Standards of practice on thermal ablation of liver tumours (2020)

United Kingdom

●National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Interventional procedures guidance on image-guided percutaneous laser ablation for primary and secondary liver tumours (2024)

●NICE: Interventional procedures guidance on selective internal radiation therapy for unresectable colorectal metastases in the liver (2020)

●NICE: Interventional procedures guidance on irreversible electroporation for primary liver cancer (2019)

●NICE: Interventional procedures guidance on microwave ablation for treating liver metastases (2016)

●NICE: Interventional procedures guidance on cryotherapy for the treatment of liver metastases (2010)

Japan

●[In English] Japanese Society of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery (JHBPS): Clinical practice guidelines for the management of liver metastases from extrahepatic primary cancers (2021)

●[In Japanese] JHBPS: Metastatic liver cancer treatment guidelines (2021)

●[In Japanese] Japan Society of Hepatology (JSH): Liver cancer treatment guidelines (2021)

●[In English] Japan Society for Endoscopic Surgery (JSES): General gastroenterological surgery 3 – Liver (2015)