Donor biliary variations: An overlooked problem?

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 582-587

  Nery, Jose R ^a   Fragulidis, Georgios P ^a   Scagnelli, Thomas ^b   Weppler, Deborah ^a   Webb, Marc G ^a   Khan, Mohammed F ^a   Tzakis, Andreas G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Department of Radiology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Bile ducts anatomy; Liver transplantation complications

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEPATOBILIARY SYSTEM; HUMAN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; BILE DUCTS, EXTRAHEPATIC; BILIARY TRACT DISEASES; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TISSUE DONORS; TRANSPLANTS;

EID: 0030706178     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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