Bile duct strictures after liver transplantation: A changing landscape of the Achille's heel

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 702-704

  Koneru, Baburao ^a,b   Sterling, Mark J ^a   Bahramipour, Phillip F ^a  

^a RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; RAPAMYCIN;

BALLOON DILATATION; BILE DUCT DISEASE; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; BILIARY TRACT FIBROSIS; BILIARY TRACT SURGERY; BIODEGRADABLE IMPLANT; CHOLEDOCHOJEJUNOSTOMY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDITORIAL; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FIBROSIS; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; HYPERPLASIA; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSHEPATIC CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; STENT;

ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; CHOLESTASIS; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; STENTS;

EID: 33646446606     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.20753     Document Type: Editorial

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