Analysis of the complications of the piggy-back technique in 1,112 liver transplants

Transplantation

Volumn 67, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1214-1217

  Parrilla, Pascual ^a   Sánchez Bueno, Francisco ^a   Figueras, Juan ^b   Jaurrieta, Eduardo ^b   Mir, Jose ^c   Margarit, Carlos ^d   Lázaro, José ^d   Herrera, Luis ^e   Gómez Fleitas, Manolo ^e   Varo, Evaristo ^f   Vicente, Emilio ^g   Robles, Ricardo ^a   Ramirez, Pablo ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DE LA ARRIXACA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO LA FE   (Spain)

^d HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

^e HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO MARQUÉS DE VALDECILLA   (Spain)

^f HOSPITAL CLÍNICO UNIVERSITARIO   (Spain)

^g HOSPITAL RAMÓN Y CAJAL   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASCITES; BUDD CHIARI SYNDROME; CAVA VEIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VEIN RECONSTRUCTION;

ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; HEPATIC VEINS; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; VENA CAVA, INFERIOR;

EID: 0345346389     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199905150-00003     Document Type: Article

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