Liver resection: information for patients

Patient information · Tier 5, Reference organisations · UK · 2024-09

Current — checked with the publisher on 2026-09-01

https://www.nhstayside.scot.nhs.uk/

What this platform has drawn from it — 3 claims

NHS patient information states that the liver has the ability to regrow after an operation to remove part of it. What is a liver resection?, p.2
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NHS patient information states that how much of the liver can be removed depends on the state of the liver: a person who has liver disease may have a smaller portion removed. What is a liver resection?, p.2
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UK specialist centres give different figures for how much of the liver can be removed: one states up to 75%, another states the body can cope with removal of up to two-thirds. What is a liver resection?, p.2
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How this record was checked, and what is doubtful about it

An NHS board patient leaflet, used under the source-hierarchy rule that lower tiers are used only where higher tiers are silent - and nhs.uk IS silent on liver regeneration after resection. Fetched as a PDF from the board's content delivery host, whose URL is a session-scoped IdcService query string and is therefore not recorded as the canonical link. NOTE AN INTERNAL INCONSISTENCY found during verification: page 1 says the liver regrows 'to the size it needs to be to function' while page 2 says it will 'grow back to its former size'. This platform renders neither formulation as a bare fact.

Verification: verified · last accessed 2026-09-01 · status checked against https://www.nhstayside.scot.nhs.uk/