Couinaud first proposed the naming of S9 segment of liver in 1994, and Liu Yunyi further promoted this naming in his work “Applied Anatomy of Hepatectomy and Liver Transplantation” in 2016. However, it has not been widely recognized and supported in the field of liver surgery for a long time. In recent years, due to the promotion and gradual maturity of endoscopic technology, there has been a more detailed understanding and demand for anatomy of liver and bile duct. Therefore, this article further explores the clinical value and significance of S9 segment of liver.
Collect the 15 patients with orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) in the West China Hospital of Sichuan University from February 1999 to December 2002. The patients were confirmed that had healthy survival more than 20 years. The factors affecting the long-term survival were summarized and summed up the favorable factors that promoted greatly increasing of liver transplantation effect in recent years, in order to further improve the long-term survival rate of patients underwent liver transplantation.