Use of preserved vascular homografts in liver transplantation: Hepatic artery aneurysms and other complications

American Journal of Transplantation

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 471-475

  Sellers, Marty T ^a   Haustein, Silke V ^a   McGuire, Brendan M ^b   Jones, Cathy ^a   Bynon, J Stevenson ^a   Diethelm, Arnold G ^a   Eckhoff, Devin E ^a  

^a Kentucky   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

Hepatic artery aneurysm; Liver transplantation; Vascular homografts

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALLOGRAFT; ANEURYSM; ANEURYSM SURGERY; ARTERY GRAFT; ARTICLE; CADAVER DONOR; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; FALSE ANEURYSM; FEMALE; GRAFT PATENCY; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMAN; ILIAC ARTERY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; ORGAN DONOR; REVASCULARIZATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ANEURYSM; CADAVER; FEMALE; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMANS; ILIAC ARTERY; ILIAC VEIN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN PRESERVATION; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 0036589991     PISSN: 16006135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-6143.2002.20513.x     Document Type: Article

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