Failure patterns of cryopreserved vein grafts in liver transplantation

Transplantation

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 742-747

  Kuang, Anna A ^a   Renz, John F ^a   Ferrell, Linda D ^b   Ring, Ernest J ^a   Rosenthal, Philip ^a,b   Lim, Robert C ^a   Roberts, John P ^a   Ascher, Nancy L ^a   Emond, Jean C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CRYOPRESERVATION; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMAN; ILIAC VEIN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAPHENOUS VEIN GRAFT; TREATMENT FAILURE; VEIN GRAFT;

EID: 0029745433     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199609270-00007     Document Type: Article

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