Bile duct strictures after adult liver transplantation: A role for biliary reconstructive surgery?

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 928-934

  Sutcliffe, Robert ^a   Maguire, Donal ^a   Mróz, Andrej ^b   Portmann, Bernard ^a   O'Grady, John ^a   Bowles, Matthew ^a   Muiesan, Paolo ^a   Rela, Mohamed ^a   Heaton, Nigel ^a  

^a KING S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN A; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; BILIARY TRACT SURGERY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEPATOJEJUNOSTOMY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT SELECTION; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSHEPATIC CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECIPIENT; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; BILE DUCTS; BIOPSY; CHOLESTASIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 3242768441     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.20146     Document Type: Article

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