Incisional hernia following liver transplantation: Incidence and predisposing factors

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 423-426

  Kahn, Judith ^a   Müller, Helmut ^a   Iberer, Florian ^a   Kniepeiss, Daniela ^a   Duller, Doris ^a   Rehak, Peter ^a   Tscheliessnigg, Karlheinz ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; CEFOTAXIME; CYTOGLOBIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIBODY; MAXON; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; POLYESTER; RAPAMYCIN; STEROID; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INCIDENCE; INCISIONAL HERNIA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LAPAROTOMY; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SUTURING METHOD; WOUND CLOSURE; WOUND HEALING;

ADULT; ANTILYMPHOCYTE SERUM; FEMALE; HERNIA, ABDOMINAL; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 34248187146     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: 13990012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0012.2007.00666.x     Document Type: Article

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