The use of radial artery interpositional graft between recipient splenic artery and graft artery in living donor liver transplantation

Transplant International

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 945-946

  Kamei, Hideya ^a   Fujimoto, Yasuhiro ^a   Yamamoto, Hidekazu ^a   Nagai, Shunji ^a   Kamei, Yuzuru ^a   Kiuchi, Tetsuya ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; ARTERY GRAFT; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LETTER; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL ARTERY; RECIPIENT; SPLEEN ARTERY;

ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; FIBROSIS; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIAL ARTERY; SPLEEN; SPLENIC ARTERY; TRANSPLANTS;

EID: 33749439855     PISSN: 09340874     EISSN: 14322277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-2277.2006.00386.x     Document Type: Letter

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