Hepatic arterial reconstruction in 95 adult right lobe living donor liver transplants: Evolution of anastomotic technique

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 570-574

  Marcos, Amadeo ^a   Killackey, Mary ^a   Orloff, Mark S ^a   Mieles, Luis ^a   Bozorgzadeh, Adel ^a   Tan, Henkie P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; ARTERY RECONSTRUCTION; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; ARTICLE; AUTOGRAFT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIENCE; GRAFT REJECTION; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVASCULARIZATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0038511940     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/jlts.2003.50093     Document Type: Article

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