Living donor liver transplantation in adults: Vascular variants important in surgical planning for donors and recipients

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 181, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 109-114

  Erbay, Nazli ^a,b   Raptopoulos, Vassilios ^a   Pomfret, Elizabeth A ^b   Kamel, Ihab R ^a,c   Kruskal, Jonathan B ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b LAHEY HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL BLOOD VESSEL MALFORMATION; CONTRAST RADIOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; HEPATIC ARTERY; HEPATIC VEIN; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; LIVER BLOOD FLOW; LIVER SURGERY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELATIVE; SIGNAL DETECTION; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL RISK; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT PLANNING; VASCULARIZATION;

EID: 0038311014     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/ajr.181.1.1810109     Document Type: Article

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