Preoperative volume prediction in adult living donor liver transplantation: How much can we rely on it? Essen experience based on virtual three-dimensional computed tomography-volume assessment

American Journal of Transplantation

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 672-679

  Radtke, A ^a   Sotiropoulos, G C ^a   Nadalin, S ^a   Molmenti, E P ^a   Schroeder, T ^a   Lang, H ^a   Saner, F ^a   Valentin Gamazo, C ^a   Frilling, A ^a   Schenk, A ^b   Broelsch, C E ^a   Malago M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER MEVIS   (Germany)

Author keywords

3 D reconstruction; Liver imaging; Liver surgery; Liver volume; Living donor liver transplantation; Surgery planning in LDLT

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER WEIGHT; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VOLUMETRY;

DONOR SELECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PROGNOSIS; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33847751876     PISSN: 16006135     EISSN: 16006143     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-6143.2006.01656.x     Document Type: Article

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