Treatment of Biliary Atresia by Portoenterostomy and Liver Transplantation: The Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong Experience

Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 181, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 109-116

  Saing, Htut ^a   Fan, Sheung Tat ^a   Chan, Kwong Leung ^a   Wei, William ^a   Mya, George Hlaing ^a   Lo, Chung Mau ^a   Cheng, Wei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Biliary atresia; Liver transplantation; Microvascular surgery; Portoenterostomy

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT ATRESIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEPATIC ARTERY; HONG KONG; HUMAN; INFANT; JAUNDICE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY; PORTOENTEROSTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE;

AGE FACTORS; BILIARY ATRESIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEPATIC ARTERY; HONG KONG; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; JAUNDICE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PORTOENTEROSTOMY, HEPATIC; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0030632749     PISSN: 00408727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1620/tjem.181.109     Document Type: Article

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