Portal vein reconstruction in adult living donor liver transplantation using cryopreserved vein grafts

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1233-1236

  Sugawara, Yasuhiko ^a   Makuuchi, Masatoshi ^a   Tamura, Sumihito ^a   Matsui, Yuichi ^a   Kaneko, Junichi ^a   Hasegawa, Kiyoshi ^a   Imamura, Hiroshi ^a   Kokudo, Norihiro ^a   Motomura, Noboru ^a   Takamoto, Shinichi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOGRAFT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; DATA ANALYSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; GRAFT PATENCY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PORTAL VEIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VEIN ANASTOMOSIS; VEIN GRAFT; VEIN RECONSTRUCTION;

ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; CRYOPRESERVATION; FEMALE; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; PORTAL VEIN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TRANSPLANTS; VASCULAR PATENCY; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 33746921288     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.20786     Document Type: Article

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