Umbilical portion of recipient's left portal vein: A useful vascular conduit in dual living donor liver transplantation for the thrombosed portal vein

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 802-806

  Moon, Deok Bog ^a   Lee, Sung Gyu ^a   Hwang, Shin ^a   Park, Kwang Min ^a   Kim, Ki Hun ^a   Ahn, Chul Soo ^a   Lee, Young Joo ^a   Ha, Tae Yong ^a   Cho, Seong Hun ^a   Oh, Ki Bong ^a   Kim, Yeon Dae ^a   Kim, Keon Kuk ^a  

^a University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DISEASE SEVERITY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES BLEEDING; FATTY LIVER; GRAFT OCCLUSION; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFLAMMATION; INTIMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER WEIGHT; LIVING DONOR; MALE; PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; SAFETY; STOMACH HEMORRHAGE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VEIN RECONSTRUCTION;

ADULT; HEPATITIS B; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PORTAL VEIN; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UMBILICUS; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 2942737184     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.20185     Document Type: Article

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