Use of the piggyback hepatectomy technique in liver transplant recipients with hepatocellular carcinoma

Transplantation

Volumn 85, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1496-1499

  Mangus, Richard S ^a   Fridell, Jonathan A ^a   Vianna, Rodrigo M ^a   Cooper, Amanda B ^a   Jones, Daniel T ^a   Tector, A Joe ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Conventional hepatectomy technique; Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC); Liver cancer; Orthotopic liver transplant; Piggyback hepatectomy technique

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENCE RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; LIVER TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 48649091347     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TP.0b013e31816feec0     Document Type: Article

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