Interventional radiology: Management of biliary complications of liver transplantation

Seminars in Interventional Radiology

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 297-308

  Kothary, Nishita ^a   Patel, Aalpen A ^a   Shlansky Goldberg, Richard D ^b  

^a NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biliary complications; Biliary leak; Biliary strictures; Interventional radiology; Liver transplantation

Indexed keywords

ANASTOMOSIS; BILE DUCT DILATATION; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; BILE LEAKAGE; BILIARY TRACT DISEASE; BILOMA; COMMON BILE DUCT STONE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; ISCHEMIA; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER VEIN OBSTRUCTION; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; MORBIDITY; ODDI SPHINCTER; PATIENT CARE; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSHEPATIC CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSHEPATIC DRAINAGE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RADIOLOGIST; REVIEW; SMALL INTESTINE DISEASE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL RATE; T TUBE;

EID: 11344268623     PISSN: 07399529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2004-861564     Document Type: Review

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