Anatomy of the middle hepatic vein: Applications to living donor liver transplantation

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 53, Issue 72, 2006, Pages 933-937

  Matsubara, Katsuhiko ^a,b   Cho, Akihiro ^a   Okazumi, Shinichi ^a   Makino, Harufumi ^b   Mochizuki, Ryoyu ^a   Shuto, Kiyohiko ^a   Kudo, Hidehiro ^a   Tohma, Takayuki ^a   Gunji, Hisashi ^a   Hayano, Koichi ^a   Yanagawa, Noriyuki ^c   Ochiai, Takenori ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c CHIBA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Liver anatomy; Living donor liver transplantation; Middle hepatic vein

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEPATIC VEIN; HUMAN; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL DRAINAGE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HEPATIC VEINS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREOPERATIVE CARE; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33845218720     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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