Blood loss and transfusion requirements during hepatic resection surgery under low CVP conditions - is routine cross-matching essential?

A risk score for predicting perioperative blood transfusion in liver surgery (Br J Surg 2007; 94: 860–865)

“…A recent article from Krag et al 2 reported a much bigger series in which 1928 patients received a sentinel node procedure with confirmatory axillary node dissection. Previous excisional biopsy seemed to be associated with a higher false-negative rate (15·3 versus 8·1 per cent; P = 0·0082).…”