Spleen size of live donors for liver transplantation

Surgical and Radiologic Anatomy

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 515-518

  Kaneko, Junichi ^a   Sugawara, Yasuhiko ^a   Matsui, Yuichi ^a   Makuuchi, Masatoshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Livedonor; Liver transplantation; Splenomegaly

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AORTA; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN SIZE; SPLENOMEGALY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; REFERENCE VALUES; SPLEEN; SPLENOMEGALY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 47949105326     PISSN: 09301038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00276-008-0364-z     Document Type: Article

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