Hepatectomy of living donors with a left-sided gallbladder and multiple combined anomalies for adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 141-146

  Hwang, Shin ^a   Lee, Sung Gyu ^a   Park, Kwang Min ^a   Lee, Young Joo ^a   Ahn, Chul Soo ^a   Kim, Ki Hoon ^a   Moon, Deog Bok ^a   Ha, Tae Yong ^a   Cho, Sung Hun ^a   Oh, Ki Bong ^a  

^a University of Ulsan   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; BILIARY TRACT MALFORMATION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMAN; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MORBIDITY; PORTAL VEIN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RARE DISEASE; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BILE DUCTS; GALLBLADDER; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; PORTAL SYSTEM; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING;

EID: 3042817114     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.20007     Document Type: Article

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