Patient’s apprehension of the underlying disease and planned surgery
We evaluated patient’s understanding of the planned surgical procedure following surgical education. First, patients had to name the surgical procedure in their own words, we saw that most patients referred to unspecific terms (e.g. removal of mass) without clarifying mass count and location or type of resection (52.5%, data not shown). When asked to pick the correct type of liver surgery from a displayed list (atypical resection, anatomic resection, hemi-hepatectomy, associating liver partition and portal vein ligation for staged hepatectomy, left or right lobe), 80% of patients from the 3D-LiMo group and 55% of the control group correctly selected the surgical procedure (