Urgent revascularization of liver allografts after early hepatic artery thrombosis

Transplantation

Volumn 62, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 1584-1587

  Pinna, Antonio D ^a,b   Smith, Craig V ^a   Furukawa, Hiro ^a   Starzl, Thomas E ^a   Fung, John J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTERY THROMBOSIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; GRAFT PATENCY; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER BLOOD FLOW; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVASCULARIZATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; ENDARTERECTOMY; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; REOPERATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030463460     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199612150-00010     Document Type: Article

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