Gastrointestinal bleeding after living-related liver transplantation

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 47, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 2386-2388

  Hirata, Masaru ^a   Kita, Yoshiaki ^a   Harihara, Yasushi ^a   Hisatomi, Shinya ^a   Sano, Keiji ^a   Mizuta, Koichi ^a   Yoshino, Hiroyuki ^a   Sugawara, Yasuhiko ^a   Takayama, Tadatoshi ^a   Kawarasaki, Hideo ^a   Hashizume, Kohei ^a   Makuuchi, Masatoshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Esophageal variceal bleeding; Gastrointestinal bleeding; Living related liver transplantation; Portal vein thrombosis

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; JAPAN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER WEIGHT; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VARICOSIS;

EID: 0036843694     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020570901035     Document Type: Article

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