Refinement of venous reconstruction using cryopreserved veins in right liver grafts

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 541-547

  Sugawara, Yasuhiko ^a   Makuuchi, Masatoshi ^a   Akamatsu, Nobuhisa ^a   Kishi, Yoji ^a   Niiya, Takashi ^a   Kaneko, Junichi ^a   Imamura, Hiroshi ^a   Kokudo, Nirihiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT ATRESIA; BILE LEAKAGE; CITRULLINEMIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRYOPRESERVATION; DEATH; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HEPATIC VEIN; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER REGENERATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MALE; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD FLOW; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; PRIMARY SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VEIN ANASTOMOSIS; VEIN GRAFT; VEIN RECONSTRUCTION; WILSON DISEASE;

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; CRYOPRESERVATION; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES; VEINS;

EID: 1842581693     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.20129     Document Type: Article

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