New hepatic vein reconstruction by double expansion of outflow capacity of left-sided liver graft in living-donor liver transplantation [1]

Transplantation

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 882-884

  Sato, Yoshinobu ^a   Yamamoto, Satoshi ^a   Takeishi, Toshiyuki ^a   Nakatsuka, Hideki ^a   Kokai, Hidenaka ^a   Hatakeyama, Katsuyoshi ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL AND DENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CAVA VEIN; END TO SIDE ANASTOMOSIS; FOLLOW UP; HEPATIC VEIN; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LETTER; LIVER CIRCULATION; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VEIN RECONSTRUCTION;

HEPATIC VEINS; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 0141702121     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.TP.0000076492.10613.E6     Document Type: Letter

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