"Surgicel abscess" after pediatric liver transplantation: A potential trap

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 197-198

  Stringer, Mark D ^a   Dasgupta, Dowmitra ^a   McClean, Patricia ^a   Davison, Suzanne ^a   Ramsden, William ^a  

^a ST JAMES S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXIDIZED REGENERATED CELLULOSE;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT ATRESIA; BILIARY TRACT DRAINAGE; CADAVER DONOR; CASE REPORT; CATHETER INFECTION; CHOLESTASIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DUODENOSTOMY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEVER; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; INTESTINE ATRESIA; LAPAROTOMY; LIVER ABSCESS; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER HEMATOMA; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; SHORT BOWEL SYNDROME; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037319249     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/jlts.2003.50059     Document Type: Article

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