Using a radial artery as an interpositional vascular graft in a living-donor liver transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma

Transplant International

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 408-411

  Mizuno, Shugo ^a   Yokoi, Hajime ^a   Isaji, Shuji ^a   Yamagiwa, Kentaro ^a   Tabata, Masami ^a   Shimono, Takatsugu ^a   Miya, Fuminori ^a   Takada, Yasuji ^b   Uemoto, Shinji ^a  

^a MIE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hepatocellular carcinoma; Living donor liver transplantation; Radial artery graft

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; ANTIVITAMIN K; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN; HEPATITIS C ANTIBODY; INTERFERON; POLYPROPYLENE; TUMOR MARKER; VIRUS RNA;

ABDOMINAL ANGIOGRAPHY; ADULT; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTERY RECONSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL GRAFT; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RADIAL ARTERY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ANGIOGRAPHY; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; HEPATIC ARTERY; LIVER TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSPLANTATION;

ANGIOGRAPHY; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIAL ARTERY; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 20444452570     PISSN: 09340874     EISSN: 14322277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-2277.2004.00049.x     Document Type: Article

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