The technical pitfalls of duct-to-duct biliary reconstruction in pediatric living-donor left-lobe liver transplantation: The impact of stent placement

Pediatric Transplantation

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 661-665

  Sakamoto, Seisuke ^a,b   Egawa, Hiroto ^b   Ogawa, Kohei ^b   Ogura, Yasuhiro ^b   Oike, Fumitaka ^b   Ueda, Mikiko ^b   Yazumi, Shujiro ^b   Shibata, Toshiya ^b   Takada, Yasutsugu ^b   Uemoto, Shinji ^b  

^a Faculty of Medicine ^*  (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biliary reconstruction; Duct to duct anastomosis; Living donor liver transplantation; Pediatric liver transplantation; Surgical complication

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; BILE DUCT RECONSTRUCTION; BILE LEAKAGE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; END TO END ANASTOMOSIS; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFANT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MALE; ROUX Y ANASTOMOSIS; STENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SUTURE; TUBE;

ADOLESCENT; BILE DUCTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; LIVER; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 49349098701     PISSN: 13973142     EISSN: 13993046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3046.2007.00870.x     Document Type: Article

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