Sharing the middle hepatic vein between donor and recipient: Left liver graft procurement preserving a large segment VIII branch in donor

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1208-1212

  Kishi, Yoji ^a   Sugawara, Yasuhiko ^a   Akamatsu, Nobuhisa ^a   Kaneko, Junichi ^a   Matsui, Yuichi ^a   Kokudo, Norihiro ^a   Makuuchi, Masatoshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEPATIC VEIN; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LIVER CONGESTION; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER REGENERATION; LIVER RESECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORGAN DONOR; PATCH CLAMP; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRESERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; VEIN LIGATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; DISSECTION; FEMALE; HEPATECTOMY; HEPATIC VEINS; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER REGENERATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 4544348196     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.20226     Document Type: Article

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