Adult living donor liver transplantation: Living donation of the right liver lobe

Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery

Volumn 392, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 657-662

  Mittler, J ^a   Pascher, A ^a   Jonas, S ^a   Pratschke, J ^a   Neumann, U P ^a   Langrehr, J M ^a   Neuhaus, P ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Indications; Liver transplantation; Living donation; Operative strategy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BILE DUCT CARCINOMA; BILIARY TRACT DISEASE; CHOLESTASIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHICS; HEMIHEPATECTOMY; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION; VIRUS HEPATITIS;

ADULT; BILE DUCT NEOPLASMS; BILE DUCTS, INTRAHEPATIC; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA; DONOR SELECTION; HEPATECTOMY; HEPATITIS, VIRAL, HUMAN; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, BILIARY; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; PROGNOSIS; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING;

EID: 35448934462     PISSN: 14352443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00423-007-0187-0     Document Type: Article

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