Liver Transplantation for Extra Hepatic Biliary Atresia

Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 181, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 117-127

  Nagral, Sanjay ^a   Muiesan, Paolo ^a   Vilca Melendez, Hector ^a   Mieli Vergani, Giorgina ^a   Baker, Alistair ^a   Karani, John ^a   Howard, Edward ^a   Rela, Mohamed ^b   Heaton, Nigel ^b  

^a KING S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Biliary atresia; Liver transplantation; Portoenterostomy

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT ATRESIA; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMAN; INFANT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; OBSTRUCTIVE JAUNDICE; PORTOENTEROSTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REOPERATION; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADOLESCENT; BILIARY ATRESIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHOLESTASIS, EXTRAHEPATIC; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INFANT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PORTOENTEROSTOMY, HEPATIC; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0030632750     PISSN: 00408727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1620/tjem.181.117     Document Type: Article

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