481 Limited Hepatectomy (1/2)

While Lu Wenbin performed the surgery, he peeked at the young nurses around him, along with the young nurses and female doctors who came to observe by the side.

Just as Lu Xun said, ”a rabbit does not nibble the grass near its own burrow.” Lu Wenbin also did not want to find his other half from the Emergency Medical Center. Even if there might be somebody who was willing, he could probably reject her too!

However, it was different in the Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery.

The Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery was no longer like the grass by the burrow, because the department was already far from the burrows.

Lu Webin's attention was particularly attracted by a scrub nurse.

The young-looking scrub nurse had a small face, sharp chin, small boobs, and thin legs, and her movements were gentle when she passed the devices…

”Aspirate.” Ling Ran ordered.

Lu Wenbin s straightened his back and raised his head in a well-trained motion. He tried to hide his tummy, but at the same time, he subconsciously tightened his grip on the machine.

A stretch of dirty blood was sucked out from the abdomen, and the liver that had hardened slightly was exposed again.

”The cirrhosis is rather serious. We will now perform blunt separation,” Ling Ran said and took out the liver with his hands without hesitation.

He did this many times, and for Lu Wenbin and the others, it was not something shocking anymore.

Recently, when they ate pomelos, they practiced the method of extracting a liver using hands using it. The pomelo skin could be used to practice sutures, while the pomelo fruit was used to practice liver extraction. Hence, the pomelo was considered to be a very useful fruit.

However, for the reporter, Ling Ran's action was very impressive.

He immediately raised his camera lens and pressed the shutter button. He pressed it while he busied himself adjusting the angle.

Ling Ran did not bother to look at the reporter. He continued performing his surgery.

For him, reporters were not something new. Even people like Lu Wenbin were already used to this kind of situation.

”Do you want to cut more?” He Yuanzheng who did not really make any comments throughout the whole surgery. But at this moment, he made a suggestion.

He was an ”old” doctor in the Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, and he was very experienced. Most importantly, he was experienced in performing liver cancer surgery. From this perspective, he was more experienced than Ling Ran, who had mastered Master Level Hepatectomy.

Ling Ran hesitated for a while, and his hesitation was clear. Then, he said, ”If we consider the area of the liver we already resected, it'll already be very difficult for the liver to recover.”

When a part of the liver was removed, it could regenerate on its own, and that was the basis for hepatectomy.

However, a foundation was needed even for regeneration. If too much of the liver was removed, the regeneration would be very slow. Naturally, another possible circumstance would be insufficient liver function. The patient would not even be able to leave the ICU alive.

Meanwhile, He Yuanzheng spoke based on his experience, ”Based on the severed ends of the liver, I think we need to resect more parts of the liver to fully get rid of the cancer cells. Of course, this is my personal habit, I usually cut a little bit more…”

Lu Wenbin and the others could not help but schooled their expressions while they listened obediently to the conversation between them.

Those who liked drama even cast a secretive glance at the reporter and looked forward to whatever will happen next.

The chief surgeon and the actual chief surgeon had a disagreement in the next part of the surgery plan. In the operating theater, the level of intensity and excitement for this sort of argument could only be considered second to p*rn videos about a doctor and a nurse, a doctor and a patient, a nurse and a patient, a doctor, nurse, and patient, and a video about a patient who ran away from the hospital suddenly entering an operating theater.

If a reporter was there, there was no doubt that this would increase the intensity level of the argument.

Even though Lu Wenbin was slightly worried, he dared not raise his head and interrupt the conversation. How could he even have a chance to speak when Department Director Huo was there?

At that moment, Ling Ran raised his head and looked at He Yuanzheng before he glanced at the reporter.

He Yuanzheng said, ”The relapse rate for liver cancer is very high. If you don't cut any further, it'll be very hard to guarantee the effects.”

Ling Ran muttered and said, ”But if we cut more, the patient will be in danger.”

”If the patient experiences relapse within a short period of time after surgery, it'll be better for him to die than stay alive,” He Yuanzheng said earnestly. He had performed many liver cancer surgeries, so he did indeed have a deeper understanding about it.

If the patient could have a higher quality of life during the period of stable disease, even if the patient experienced a relapse or the cancerous cells shifted elsewhere, he would have the confidence to go through another round of dangerous surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and so on…

However, if the period of stable disease for the patient was very short, the patient's will to continue surviving would be greatly reduced, because they needed to suffer again right after they had just recovered from the pain.