Portal vein reconstruction in pediatric liver transplantation from living donors

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 227, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 275-281

  Saad, Stefan ^a   Tanaka, Koichi ^a   Inomata, Yukihiro ^a   Uemoto, Shingi ^a   Ozaki, Nobuhiro ^a   Okajima, Hideaki ^a   Egawa, Hiroito ^a   Yamaoka, Yoshio ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; PORTAL VEIN; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD FLOW; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLENIC VEIN; SUPERIOR MESENTERIC VEIN; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VEIN ANASTOMOSIS; VEIN RECONSTRUCTION;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; BILIARY ATRESIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; PORTAL VEIN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 0031886956     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000658-199802000-00018     Document Type: Article

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