Internal hernia of the small bowel around infrarenal arterial conduits after liver transplantation

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 334-338

  Nishida, Seigo ^a,b   Pinna, Antonio G ^a   Nery, Jose R ^a   Levi, David ^a   Kato, Tomoaki ^a   Madariaga, Juan ^a   Tzakis, Andreas G ^a  

^a JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biliary complication; Hepatic artery thrombosis; Retroperitonealization; Small bowel obstruction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA; ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; ARTERY GRAFT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; FATALITY; FEMALE; HEPATIC ARTERY; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; INTERNAL HERNIA; INTESTINE VOLVULUS; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER ISCHEMIA; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PERITONEUM ADHESION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVASCULARIZATION; SEPSIS; SMALL INTESTINE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL; THROMBECTOMY; THROMBOSIS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; FATAL OUTCOME; HERNIA; HUMANS; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0036786203     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-0012.2002.01149.x     Document Type: Article

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