An alternative method of arterial reconstruction after hepatic arterial thrombosis following living. Related liver transplantation

Transplantation

Volumn 69, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1953-1955

  Ikegami, Toshihiko ^a   Kawasaki, Seiji ^a   Hashikura, Yasuhiko ^a   Miwa, Shiro ^a   Kubota, Tatsuya ^a   Mita, Atsuyoshi ^a   Iijima, Satoshi ^a   Terada, Masaru ^a   Miyagawa, Shinichi ^a   Furuta, Sunao ^a  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALLOGRAFT; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTERY RECONSTRUCTION; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; GASTROEPIPLOIC ARTERY; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMAN; LIVER BLOOD FLOW; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; REVASCULARIZATION; SKIN INCISION;

EID: 17044440812     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-200005150-00036     Document Type: Article

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