Improved results of liver transplantation in patients with portal vein thrombosis

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 131, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 840-845

  Seu, Philip ^a   Shackleton, Christopher R ^a   Shaked, Abraham ^a,b   Imagawa, David K ^a   Olthoff, Kim M ^a,b   Rudich, Steven R ^a   Kinkhabwala, Milan ^a   Busuttil, Ronald W ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERIOR MESENTERIC VEIN; SURVIVAL RATE; THROMBECTOMY; VEIN GRAFT; VEIN RECONSTRUCTION; VEIN STRIPPING;

EID: 0029745984     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.1996.01430200050009     Document Type: Conference Paper

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