Live donor liver transplantation in adults

Transplantation

Volumn 82, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 723-732

  Fan, Sheung Tat ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Live donor liver transplantation

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; HEPARIN;

CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FATTY LIVER; HEPATOJEJUNOSTOMY; HUMAN; LIVER ANGIOGRAPHY; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER VEIN; MORTALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORGAN DONOR; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND CLOSURE; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; CHILD; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; PATIENT SELECTION; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING;

EID: 33749122466     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.tp.0000235171.17287.f2     Document Type: Review

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