“…16 Like in many other fields of surgery, various authors continue to use multiple different and separate factors, the dynamics of which should confirm the improvement of the manual skills of the surgeon in laparoscopic liver resection: operative time, pedicle clamping, number of major liver resection, rate of conversion, blood loss, morbidity, and others. [17][18][19] Some sophisticated statistical methods (CUSUM) applied for learning curve estimation also refer to surgical events. [19][20][21] The outcome of a surgical procedure depends not only upon surgical skill, but also on the complexity of surgery, which in turn is a resultant value of many composing factors.…”