Effects of portal vein embolization before major hepatectomy

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 50, Issue 50, 2003, Pages 438-442

  Fujii, Yoshiro ^a   Shimada, Hiroshi ^a   Endo, Itaru ^a   Morioka, Daisuke ^a   Nagano, Yasuhiko ^a   Miura, Yasuhiko ^a   Tanaka, Kuniya ^a   Togo, Shinji ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Major hepatectomy; Portal vein embolization; Surgical stress

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN; LEUKOCYTE ELASTASE; THROMBIN ANTITHROMBIN COMPLEX;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER RESECTION; MALE; NEUTROPHIL; PORTAL VEIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS;

AGED; ANTITHROMBIN III; BILIRUBIN; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FEMALE; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE ELASTASE; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; PORTAL VEIN; PREOPERATIVE CARE;

EID: 0037350538     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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