Modern medicine offers countless advances in this field. So much so, that at present, each tumor receives its own name, since its behaviour differs according to the affected organ and its constituent cells.

Patients suffering from malignant hepatobiliary pancreatic disease (cancer), require the professional attention of a multidisciplinary specialized team, that may evaluate and indicate, according to the characteristics of each disease and each patient, one or more of the following therapeutic alternatives: Surgery, Chemotherapy, Radiotherapy, Alcoholization, Radiofrequency Ablation, Embolization, Two-stage Surgery, etc.

The close anatomic functional relationship of the liver, biliary tract – hepatic ducts and gall bladder and pancreas, has led to develop medical-surgical procedures which necessarily act in a simultaneous way on more than one of these structures. Although we group these procedures under the subspecialty named hepatobiliary pancreatic surgery, it is important to develop separately some of the most frequent techniques to treat the following medical affections.