Use of a branch patch with the cystic artery in living-related liver transplantation

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 480-483

  Di Benedetto, Fabrizio ^a   Lauro, Augusto ^a   Masetti, Michele ^a   Cautero, Nicola ^a   Quintini, Cristiano ^a   Dazzi, Alessandro ^a   Ramacciato, Giovanni ^a   Risaliti, Andrea ^a   Miller, Charles M ^b   Pinna, Antonio D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Hepatic artery; Liver transplantation; Living donor

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN; TACROLIMUS; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTERY RECONSTRUCTION; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; ARTICLE; BILIARY TRACT DISEASE; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEPATIC ARTERY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MALE; MICROSURGERY; OPERATION DURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURGICAL TRAINING; SUTURING METHOD; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; CHILD; FEMALE; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; THROMBOSIS; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 4043090633     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0012.2004.00195.x     Document Type: Article

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