Living donor liver transplantation in a patient with giant hepatic hemangioma complicated by Kasabach-Merritt syndrome: Report of a case

Surgery Today

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 463-468

  Meguro, Makoto ^a,b   Soejima, Yuji ^a   Taketomi, Akinobu ^a   Ikegami, Toru ^a   Yamashita, Yo Ichi ^a   Harada, Noboru ^a   Itoh, Shinji ^a   Hirata, Koichi ^b   Maehara, Yoshihiko ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Giant hepatic hemangioma; Kasabach Merritt syndrome; Living donor liver transplantation

Indexed keywords

STEROID; TACROLIMUS;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; GRAFT DYSFUNCTION; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEPATIC VEIN; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KASABACH MERRITT SYNDROME; LIVER HEMANGIOMA; LIVER LOBECTOMY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; SEPSIS; TUMOR VOLUME; VEIN BYPASS;

DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR COAGULATION; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FEMALE; HEMANGIOMA; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 43049124432     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: 14362813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-007-3623-4     Document Type: Article

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