Reference intra-operative blood loss levels are available from 138 patients (June 2009 - June 2012), without portal vein resection and without additional surgery. Analysis of these data reveals that these values follow a lognormal distribution; the log-transformed blood loss has a normal distribution with mean and standard deviation equal to 6.06 and 0.83, respectively. The corresponding geometric mean equals 427ml. Based on this distribution, 42.4%, 24.7% and 15.1% of the subjects are expected to have blood loss higher than 500, 750 and 1000 ml, respectively. It is assumed that the treatment (LPD) will lead to a 50% reduction of the (geometric) mean. The impact of this assumption on the distribution of the blood loss levels implies that 15.1%, 6.4% and 3.1% of the subjects in the LPD-group are expected to have a blood loss level higher than 500, 750 and 1000 ml, respectively.