The "territorial belonging" of the middle hepatic vein: A troublesome dilemma in adult live donor liver transplantation - Anatomical evidence based on virtual 3-dimensional-computed tomography-imaging reconstructions

European Journal of Medical Research

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 66-72

  Radtke, A ^a   Schroeder, T ^a   Molmenti, E P ^a   Sotiropoulos, G C ^a   Nadalin, S ^a   Schenk, A ^b   Malamutmann, E ^a   Saner, F ^a   Valentin Gamazo, C ^a   Dahmen, U ^a   Lang, H ^a   Peitgen, H O ^b   Broelsch, C E ^a   Malagò, Massimo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

3 dimensional reconstruction; Liver surgery; Liver venous drainage; Living donor liver transplantation; Small for size syndrome

Indexed keywords

IOBITRIDOL; MEGLUMINE IOTROXATE;

ADULT; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL PARAMETERS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HEPATIC VEIN; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; SURGICAL ANATOMY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VEIN BLOOD FLOW; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ADULT; FEMALE; HEPATIC VEINS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33644776874     PISSN: 09492321     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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