A multivariable risk factor analysis of the portoenterostomy (Kasai) procedure for biliary atresia: Twenty-five years of experience from two centers

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 226, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 348-355

  Altman, R Peter ^a   Lilly, John R ^b   Greenfeld, Jonathan ^a   Weinberg, Alan ^a   Van Leeuwen, Kathleen ^a   Flanigan, Laura ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT ATRESIA; HUMAN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PORTOENTEROSTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANASTOMOSIS, ROUX-EN-Y; BILE DUCTS; BILIARY ATRESIA; BIOPSY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; INFANT; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PORTOENTEROSTOMY, HEPATIC; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031429161     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000658-199709000-00014     Document Type: Article

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