Computer-assisted operative planning in adult living donor liver transplantation: A new way to resolve the dilemma of the middle hepatic vein

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 175-185

  Radtke, A ^a   Nadalin, S ^a   Sotiropoulos, G C ^a   Molmenti, E P ^a   Schroeder, T ^a   Valentin Gamazo, C ^a   Lang, H ^a   Bockhorn, M ^a   Peitgen, H O ^b   Broelsch, C E ^a   Malago M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEPATIC ARTERY; HEPATIC VEIN; HUMAN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER VEIN; LIVER WEIGHT; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PORTAL VEIN; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL RISK; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VEIN BLOOD FLOW;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HEPATIC VEINS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; SOFTWARE; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33846181389     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-005-0718-1     Document Type: Article

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