Biliary reconstructions and complications encountered in 50 consecutive right-lobe living donor liver transplantations

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 575-580

  Icoz, Gokhan ^a   Kilic, Murat ^a   Zeytunlu, Murat ^a   Celebi, Arzu ^a   Ersoz, Galip ^a   Killi, Refik ^a   Memis, Ahmet ^a   Karasu, Zeki ^a   Yuzer, Yildiray ^a   Tokat, Yaman ^a  

^a EGE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ALLOGRAFT; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT BYPASS; BILE DUCT INJURY; BILIARY TRACT DISEASE; BILIARY TRACT ENDOSCOPY; BILIARY TRACT SURGERY; BILOMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT OCCLUSION; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMAN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER WEIGHT; LIVING DONOR; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; RESTENOSIS; ROUX Y ANASTOMOSIS; SAFETY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037835441     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/jlts.2003.50129     Document Type: Article

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