Bowel obstruction due to diaphragmatic hernia in an elder child after pediatric liver transplantation

Pediatric Transplantation

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 324-326

  Okajima, Hideaki ^a,b   Hayashida, Shintaro ^a   Iwasaki, Hironori ^a   Suda, Hiroko ^a   Takeichi, Takayuki ^a   Ueno, Mikako ^a   Asonuma, Katsuhiro ^a   Inomata, Yukihiro ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bowel obstruction; Complication; Diaphragmatic hernia; Living donor liver transplantation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DIAPHRAGM HERNIA; HUMAN; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; LAPAROTOMY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; SCHOOL CHILD; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WILSON DISEASE;

CHILD; HERNIA, DIAPHRAGMATIC; HUMANS; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34147189562     PISSN: 13973142     EISSN: 13993046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3046.2006.00658.x     Document Type: Article

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