This document summarizes a presentation on controversies in hepatobiliary pancreatic surgery. It discusses 4 topics: 1) Whether resectable hilar cholangiocarcinoma should be resected or treated with orthotopic liver transplantation, 2) How to treat node-positive intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma, 3) Options for unresectable intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma, and 4) Managing large hepatocellular carcinoma in early cirrhosis. For each topic, one or more case examples are described and various treatment approaches are outlined and discussed. Supporting data from studies on outcomes with different strategies are also presented.