Parenchyma transection in adult live donor liver transplantation: The virtual dilemma of "where to cut". Experience based on virtual 3-dimensional computed tomography imaging reconstructions

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 53, Issue 72, 2006, Pages 811-815

  Radtke, Arnold ^a   Nadalin, Silvio ^a   Sotiropoulos, Georgios C ^a   Molmenti, Ernesto P ^a   Schroeder, Tobias ^a   Schenk, Andrea ^b   Frilling, Andrea ^a   Saner, Fuat H ^c   Peitgen, Heinz O ^b   Broelsch, Christoph E ^a   Malagó, Massimo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^c NONE

Author keywords

3 dimensional, imaging, reconstruction; Hepatic vein dominance; Live donor liver transplantation; Liver surgery; Venous drainage; Virtual liver resection

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEPATIC VEIN; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER PARENCHYMA; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER WEIGHT; LIVING DONOR; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADULT; FEMALE; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33845211176     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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