Outcomes and risk factors for failure of radiologic treatment of biliary strictures in pediatric liver transplantation recipients

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 821-826

  Sunku, Bhanu ^a   Salvalaggio, Paolo R O ^a   Donaldson, James S ^a   Rigsby, Cynthia K ^a   Neighbors, Katie ^a   Superina, Riccardo A ^a   Alonso, Estella M ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT ATRESIA; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; CHILD; CHOLEDOCHOJEJUNOSTOMY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENCE RISK; RECURRENT DISEASE; REOPERATION; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; CHOLESTASIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; RECURRENCE; RISK FACTORS; STENTS; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 33646438537     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.20712     Document Type: Article

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