Reconstruction of isolated caudate portal vein in left liver graft

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1163-1165

  Kokudo, Norihiro ^a   Sugawara, Yasuhiko ^a   Kaneko, Junichi ^a   Imamura, Hiroshi ^a   Sano, Keiji ^a   Makuuchi, Masatoshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAFT PATENCY; HEPATIC VEIN; HUMAN; ISOLATION PROCEDURE; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER LOBECTOMY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PORTAL VEIN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VEIN GRAFT; VEIN RECONSTRUCTION;

HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; PORTAL VEIN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 4544252298     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.20220     Document Type: Article

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