The unrecognized posterior gastric artery: A potential cause of surgical complications in pancreas transplantation

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 214-218

  Troppmann, Christoph ^a   Pirenne, Jacques ^b   Perez, Richard V ^a   Gruessner, Rainer W G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Multiorgan donor; Organ procurement; Pancreas transplantation; Posterior gastric artery; Surgical complication

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN A; POLYPROPYLENE; PREDNISONE;

ADULT; ARTERY INJURY; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CASE REPORT; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY; END TO END ANASTOMOSIS; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMAN; ILIAC ARTERY; ILIAC VEIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MALE; PANCREAS BLOOD FLOW; PANCREAS FUNCTION; PANCREAS RESECTION; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; SPLEEN ARTERY; STANDARD; SUPERIOR MESENTERIC ARTERY; SURGEON; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TEAMWORK; VASCULAR SURGERY;

ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ARTERIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; SPLENIC ARTERY; STOMACH; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 1642524427     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1399-0012.2003.00142.x     Document Type: Article

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