Techniques of liver resection -- How much remnant is enough in liver resection? -- Extrahepatic versus intrahepatic hilar control for right hepatectomy: an updated experience -- Portal vein embolization before extended hepatectomy for biliary cancer: current technique and review of 494 consecutive embolizations -- How to transect the liver? a history lasting more than a century -- Vascular occlusion or not during liver resection: the continuing story -- Use of bipolar radiofrequency in parenchymal transection of the liver, pancreas and kidney -- Posthepatectomy bile leakage: how to manage -- Role of fibrin sealants in liver surgery -- Laparoscopic liver resection: is there a learning curve? -- Laparoscopic liver resection in the netherlands: how far are we? -- Posthepatectomy liver failure -- Author und subject index