Orthotopic liver transplantation for giant hepatic hemangioma

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 92, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1940-1941

  Russo, Mark W ^a   Johnson, Mark W ^a   Fair, Jeffrey H ^a   Brown Jr , Robert S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA HOSPITALS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER HEMANGIOMA; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER TUMOR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOMITING;

ADULT; FEMALE; HEMANGIOMA, CAVERNOUS; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0030869407     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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