Rescue of liver grafts from hepatic artery occlusion in living-related liver transplantation

British Journal of Surgery

Volumn 86, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 886-889

  Sakamoto, Y ^a,b   Harihara, Y ^a   Nakatsuka, T ^a   Kawarasaki, H ^a   Takayama, T ^a   Kubota, K ^a   Kimura, W ^a   Kita, Y ^a   Tanaka, H ^a   Ito, M ^a   Hashizume, K ^a   Makuuchi, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTERY SPASM; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; END TO END ANASTOMOSIS; FEMALE; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMAN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVASCULARIZATION; SURGICAL MICROSCOPE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMANS; JAPAN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SALVAGE THERAPY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 0032800531     PISSN: 00071323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2168.1999.01166.x     Document Type: Article

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