Correlation of Portal Venous Velocity and Portal Venous Flow With Short-Term Graft Regeneration in Recipients of Living Donor Liver Transplants

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1488-1491

  Park, M Y ^a   Lee, Y J ^a   Rha, S E ^a   Oh, S N ^a   Byun, J Y ^a   Kim, D G ^a  

^a The Catholic University of Korea   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HUMAN; LIVER LOBECTOMY; LIVER REGENERATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER WEIGHT; LIVING DONOR; LIVING DONOR LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD FLOW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VOLUMETRY;

ADULT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER REGENERATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; ORGAN SIZE; PORTAL VEIN; REGENERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 45449099488     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2008.01.074     Document Type: Article

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