Spatulated end-to-end bile duct reconstruction in orthotopic liver transplantation

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 7-12

  Buczkowski, Andrzej K ^a,b   Schaeffer, David F ^a   Kim, Peter T W ^a   Ho, Stephen G F ^b   Yoshida, Eric M ^b   Steinbrecher, Urs P ^b   Erb, Siegfried R ^b   Chung, Stephen W ^a   Scudamore, Charles H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biliary reconstruction; Choledochocholedochostomy; Orthotopic liver transplantation

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CALCINEURIN INHIBITOR; CORTICOSTEROID; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR ANTIBODY; METHYLPREDNISOLONE SODIUM SUCCINATE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID;

ADULT; ALCOHOL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; BILE DUCT RECONSTRUCTION; BILE LEAKAGE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; END TO END ANASTOMOSIS; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INCIDENCE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LOW DRUG DOSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK REDUCTION; SCORING SYSTEM; STENT; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; BILE DUCTS; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER DISEASES; HUMANS; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33846700279     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: 13990012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0012.2006.00556.x     Document Type: Article

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