Safety and efficacy of the percutaneous treatment of bile leaks in hepaticojejunostomy or split-liver transplantation without dilatation of the biliary tree

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 611-615

  Righi, Dorico ^a   Franchello, Alessandro ^a   Ricchiuti, Alessandro ^a   Breatta, Andrea Doriguzzi ^a   Versace, Karine ^a   Calvo, Amedeo ^a   Romagnoli, Renato ^a   Fonio, P ^a   Gandini, Giovanni ^a   Salizzoni, Mauro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BILE DUCT DILATATION; BILE DUCT FISTULA; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; BILE LEAKAGE; HEPATOJEJUNOSTOMY; HUMAN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATIENT SAFETY; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSHEPATIC CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSHEPATIC DRAINAGE; PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; REOPERATION; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; BALLOON DILATATION; BILE DUCT DISEASES; BILE DUCTS; BILIARY FISTULA; BILIARY TRACT SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; DRAINAGE; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; HUMANS; JEJUNOSTOMY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; RECURRENCE; REOPERATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 43849112298     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.21416     Document Type: Article

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