Reconstruction of the middle hepatic vein tributaries draining segments V and VIII of a right liver graft by using the recipient's own middle hepatic vein and vascular closure staples

Surgery Today

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 289-291

  Tashiro, Hirotaka ^a   Itamoto, Toshiyuki ^a   Ohdan, Hideki ^a   Oshita, Akihiko ^a   Fudaba, Yasuhiro ^a   Ishiyama, Kohei ^a   Kohashi, Toshihiko ^a   Amano, Hironobu ^a   Fukuda, Saburo ^a   Asahara, Toshimasa ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Living donor liver transplantation; Middle hepatic vein reconstruction; Vascular closure staples

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; GRAFT DYSFUNCTION; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER ATROPHY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER VEIN; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; VASCULAR CLOSURE STAPLE; VEIN BLOOD FLOW; VEIN RECONSTRUCTION;

HEPATECTOMY; HEPATIC VEINS; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, ALCOHOLIC; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SUTURES; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 40149110645     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: 14362813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-007-3603-8     Document Type: Article

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