A Cost-effectiveness Analysis of Biliary Anastomosis with or Without T-tube after Orthotopic Liver Transplantation

American Journal of Transplantation

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 157-161

  Shimoda, Mitsugi ^a   Saab, Sammy ^a   Morrisey, Marcia ^a   Ghobrial, R Mark ^a   Farmer, Douglas G ^a   Chen, Pauline ^a   Han, Steven Huy B ^a   Bedford, Rudolph A ^a   Goldstein, Leonard I ^a   Martin, Paul ^a   Busuttil, Ronald W ^a  

^a UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Biliary anastomosis; Liver transplantation

Indexed keywords

ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT; BILE DUCT DISEASE; CLASSIFICATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNITED STATES;

ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; BILE DUCT DISEASES; BILE DUCTS; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; COHORT STUDIES; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0035401233     PISSN: 16006135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-6143.2001.10210.x     Document Type: Article

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