Lessons learned from anatomic variants of the hepatic artery in 1,081 transplanted livers

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1401-1404

  López Andújar, Rafael ^a   Moya, Angel ^a   Montalvá, Eva ^a   Berenguer, Marina ^a   De Juan, Manuel ^a   San Juan, Fernando ^a   Pareja, Eugenia ^a   Vila, Juan José ^a   Orbis, Francisco ^a   Prieto, Martín ^a   Mir, José ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO LA FE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; CADAVER DONOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IATROGENIC DISEASE; LIVER CIRCULATION; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; ORGAN DONOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK REDUCTION; SUPERIOR MESENTERIC ARTERY; SURGICAL ANATOMY;

HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MESENTERIC ARTERY, SUPERIOR; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 35448929821     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.21254     Document Type: Article

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