Hepatic artery reconstruction with inferior mesenteric vein graft in pediatric living donor liver transplantation

Pediatric Transplantation

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 324-328

  Margreiter, Christian ^a   Aigner, Felix ^a   Orozco, Hector ^b   Wechselberger, Gottfried ^a   Öllinger, Robert ^a   Bösmüller, Claudia ^a   Sucher, Robert ^a   Mark, Walter ^a   Margreiter, Raimund ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUADALAJARA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Arterial variation; Interposition graft; Living donor liver transplantation

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; ARTERY RECONSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT ATRESIA; CASE REPORT; CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GASTRODUODENAL ARTERY; HEPATIC ARTERY; HEPATOJEJUNOSTOMY; HUMAN; INFANT; LABORATORY TEST; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MALE; MESENTERIC VEIN; RECIPIENT; SAPHENOUS VEIN; VEIN GRAFT;

BILIARY ATRESIA; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEPATIC ARTERY; HEPATIC VEINS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFANT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MESENTERIC VEINS; SAPHENOUS VEIN; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 42949112995     PISSN: 13973142     EISSN: 13993046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3046.2007.00868.x     Document Type: Article

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