Impact of early biliary complications in liver transplantation in the presence or absence of a T-tube: A Chinese transplant centre experience

Postgraduate Medical Journal

Volumn 83, Issue 976, 2007, Pages 120-123

  Li, Tang ^b   Chen, Zhi Shui ^a,b   Zeng, Fan Jun ^b   Ming, Chang Sheng ^b   Zhang, Wei Jie ^b   Liu, Dun Gui ^b   Jiang, Ji Ping ^b   Du, Dun Feng ^b   Chen, Zhong Hua Klaus ^b  

^a Tongji Hospital   (China)

^b HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT INJURY; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; BILE LEAKAGE; BLEEDING; CHINA; CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; CHOLANGITIS; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAFT DYSFUNCTION; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER TUMOR; LUNG INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; T TUBE;

BILIARY TRACT DISEASES; CHINA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUBATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33847399135     PISSN: 00325473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.2006.049171     Document Type: Article

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