Management of the bile duct anastomosis and its complications after liver transplantation

Transplantation Reviews

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 26-33

  Castaldo, Eric T ^a   Austin, Mary T ^a   Pinson, C Wright ^a   Chari, Ravi S ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; BILE LEAKAGE; BILIARY TRACT DISEASE; BILIARY TRACT SURGERY; CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; CHOLEDOCHOJEJUNOSTOMY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CYSTIC DUCT; ECHOGRAPHY; END TO END ANASTOMOSIS; END TO SIDE ANASTOMOSIS; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; ENDOSCOPIC THERAPY; GALLBLADDER; GRAFT OCCLUSION; HEPATOBILIARY SYSTEM; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MORBIDITY; MUCOCELE; NONHUMAN; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSHEPATIC CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; PERITONITIS; ROUX Y ANASTOMOSIS; STENT; SURGICAL STAPLING; SUTURING METHOD; TISSUE NECROSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34147190792     PISSN: 0955470X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trre.2007.01.002     Document Type: Article

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