Evaluating the hilar bifurcation territory in the human liver caudate lobe to obtain critical information for delimiting reliable margins during caudate lobe surgery: Anatomic study of livers with and without the external caudate notch

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 284-288

  Kanamura, Tetsuhiro ^a   Murakami, Gen ^b   Ko, Saiho ^a   Hirai, Ichiro ^c   Hata, Fumitake ^b   Nakajima, Yoshiyuki ^a  

^a NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEPATIC VEIN; HILAR BIFURCATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER HILUS; LIVER LOBECTOMY; LIVER SURGERY; PORTAL VEIN; SURGICAL ANATOMY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; LIVER; LIVER RESECTION; VASCULARIZATION;

HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIVER; PORTAL VEIN; VENA CAVA, INFERIOR;

EID: 0037968524     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-002-6590-3     Document Type: Article

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