一名癌症患者在港大深圳医院接受了分阶段肝切除

    术，术后一年恢复良好。请看本报昨日的报道：

    A cancer death sentence has been turned into a story of hope and recovery for a 37-year-old man who underwent a world-first surgery at the University of Hong Kong Shenzhen Hospital last June.

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    The surgery was a novel, two-stage hepatectomy, or Associating Liver Partition and Portal Vein Ligation for Staged Hepatectomy (ALPPS), combined with a Kausch-Whipple procedure, which had never been performed at the same time before, the University of Hong Kong Shenzhen Hospital said Friday.

    报道中的hepatectomy就是“肝切除术”，hepat-就是“肝的”，例如hepatitis是“肝炎”，-ectomy就是“切除身体的一部分”，例如vasectomy (输精管结扎术)。