Patients undergoing pulmonary resections often present postoperative air leaks. Staplers are commonly used intra-operatively during bowel resections in colorectal surgery. Minimally invasive ovarian drilling procedures have replaced wedge resections. Surgery for these conditions range from simple tumor enucleation to more larger resections. Nephron sparing partial resections may be considered for very large tumors. Large lesions can require en bloc resections. I meningiomas after subtotal (incomplete) tumor resections. Many incomplete resections result in recurrence within 2 years of primary surgery. Starting with a simple appendectomy, partial kidney resections and partial liver resections, etc. From them methods for reducing the risk of cortical resections were developed. "Two hundred and forty-one consecutive liver resections&colon; an experience from India". Total or near-total resections are often not possible. LARs, generally, give a better quality of life than abdominoperineal resections (APRs).