Microsurgical hepatic artery reconstruction during living-donor liver transplantation by using head-mounted surgical binocular system

Transplant International

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 970-973

  Ohdan, Hideki ^a   Tashiro, Hirotaka ^a   Ishiyama, Kohei ^a   Ide, Kentaro ^a   Shishida, Masayuki ^a   Irei, Toshimitsu ^a   Ohira, Masahiro ^a   Tahara, Hiroyuki ^a   Itamoto, Toshiyuki ^a   Asahara, Toshimasa ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hepatic artery reconstruction; Living donor liver transplantation; Microsurgery; Surgical telescope

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY RECONSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; BINOCULAR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMAN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MAGNIFICATION RADIOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSCOPE; MICROSURGERY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETRANSPLANTATION; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 35148853113     PISSN: 09340874     EISSN: 14322277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-2277.2007.00525.x     Document Type: Article

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