Hepatic artery reconstruction with double-needle microsuture in living-donor liver transplantation

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 46-50

  Okazaki, Mutsumi ^a   Asato, Hirotaka ^a   Takushima, Akihiko ^c   Nakatsuka, Takashi ^d   Sarukawa, Shunji ^a   Inoue, Keita ^a   Harii, Kiyonori ^c   Sugawara, Yasuhiko ^b   Makuuchi, Masatoshi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c KYORIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d SAITAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY DISSECTION; ARTERY RECONSTRUCTION; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMAN; INTIMA; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SUTURING METHOD;

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMANS; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR PATENCY; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 33645097652     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.20550     Document Type: Article

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