The major impediment to a wider application of living donor hepatectomy, particularly of the
right lobe, is its associated morbidity. The recent interest in a minimally invasive approach to
liver surgery has raised the possibility of applying these techniques to living donor right
lobectomy. Herein, we report the first case of a laparoscopic, hand-assisted living donor right
hepatic lobectomy. We describe the technical aspects of the procedure, and discuss the
rationale for considering this option. We propose that the procedure, as described, did not …