Portal vein ligation versus portal vein embolization for induction of hypertrophy of the future liver remnant: A systematic review and meta-analysis

This meta-analysis demonstrated no significant differences in safety and rate of FLR hypertrophy between PVE and PVL. PVE should be considered as the preferred strategy, since it is a minimally invasive procedure. However, during a two-stage procedure, PVL can be performed with expected comparable outcome as PVE.