Versatility of the inferior epigastric artery as an interpositional vascular graft in living-related liver transplantation

Transplantation

Volumn 67, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1490-1492

  Nakatsuka, Takashi ^a   Takushima, Akihiko ^b   Harihara, Yasushi ^b   Makuuchi, Masatoshi ^b   Kawarasaki, Hideo ^b   Hashizume, Kohei ^b  

^a SAITAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL GRAFT; CASE REPORT; END TO END ANASTOMOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFERIOR EPIGASTRIC ARTERY; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MALE; MORBIDITY; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; CADAVER; FEMALE; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMANS; ILIAC ARTERY; LIVER CIRCULATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; SAPHENOUS VEIN; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 0033564525     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199906150-00019     Document Type: Article

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