From Abernethy to APOLT

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1067-1068

  Ringe, Kristina Imeen ^a   Galanski, Michael ^a   Ringe, Burckhardt ^b  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERNETHY MALFOMATION; AUXILIARY PARTIAL ORTHOTOPIC LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGENITAL ABSENCE OF THE PORTAL VEIN; CONGENITAL BLOOD VESSEL MALFORMATION; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LETTER; LIVER BLOOD FLOW; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER TUMOR; PORTAL VEIN; PORTOCAVAL SHUNT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

HEPATOPULMONARY SYNDROME; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; PORTAL VEIN;

EID: 48949120168     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.21457     Document Type: Letter

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