Liver transplantation: Vascular complications

Ultrasound Quarterly

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 239-253

  Vaidya, Sandeep ^a   Dighe, Manjiri ^a   Kolokythas, Orpheus ^a   Dubinsky, Theodore ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Liver transplantation; Stenosis; Thrombosis; Vascular complications

Indexed keywords

ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; BLEEDING; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FALSE ANEURYSM; HUMAN; LIVER ARTERY STENOSIS; LIVER ARTERY THROMBOSIS; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER VEIN STENOSIS; LIVER VEIN THROMBOSIS; MICROBUBBLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STENOSIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THROMBOSIS; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

ANEURYSM, FALSE; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; HEPATIC ARTERY; HEPATIC VEINS; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; PORTAL VEIN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; THROMBOSIS; VASCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 37349075384     PISSN: 08948771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ruq.0b013e31815d6e1d     Document Type: Review

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