Expanding the donor pool: Safe transplantation of a cadaveric liver allograft with a 10cm cavernous hemangioma - A case report

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 687-689

  Aucejo, Federico N ^a   Ortiz, Werner Andrade ^a   Kelly, Dympna ^a   Winans, Charles ^a   Vogt, David ^a   Eghtesad, Bijan ^a   Fung, John J ^a   Miller, Charles M ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; CISPLATIN; DOXORUBICIN; MITOMYCIN C;

ADULT; AGED; ALLOGRAFT; ARTICLE; CADAVER DONOR; CASE REPORT; CAVERNOUS HEMANGIOMA; CHEMOEMBOLIZATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HEPATITIS C; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; CADAVER; HEMANGIOMA, CAVERNOUS; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MIDDLE AGED; TISSUE DONORS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33645552532     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.20766     Document Type: Article

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