Managing injuries of hepatic duct confluence variants after major hepatobiliary surgery: An algorithmic approach

World Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 14, Issue 19, 2008, Pages 3049-3053

  Fragulidis, Georgios ^a   Marinis, Athanasios ^a   Polydorou, Andreas ^a   Konstantinidis, Christos ^a   Anastasopoulos, Georgios ^a   Contis, John ^a   Voros, Dionysios ^a   Smyrniotis, Vassilios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Bile duct injury; Biliary aberrations; Hepatectomy; Hepatic duct confluence; Postoperative bile leakage

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT INJURY; BILE LEAKAGE; BILIARY TRACT SURGERY; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FISTULOGRAPHY; HEPATIC DUCT; HEPATOBILIARY SURGERY; HUMAN; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER WEIGHT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; MALE; MORBIDITY; PERCUTANEOUS DRAINAGE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCINTIGRAPHY; SEPSIS; STENT; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK;

EID: 48049117984     PISSN: 10079327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.14.3049     Document Type: Article

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