A new surgical technique for hepatic vein reconstruction in pediatric live donor liver transplantation

Pediatric Transplantation

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 677-681

  Kilic, Murat ^a   Aydinli, Bulent ^b   Aydin, Unal ^a   Alper, Mehmet ^a   Zeytunlu, Murat ^a  

^a EGE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^b ATATÜRK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Hepatic venous reconstruction; Pediatric live donor liver transplantation; Surgical technique

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER VEIN; LIVER VEIN THROMBOSIS; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT SAFETY; RECIPIENT; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SUTURE; SUTURING METHOD; VEIN ANASTOMOSIS; VEIN OCCLUSION; VEIN RECONSTRUCTION;

ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HEPATIC VEINS; HUMANS; INFANT; LIVER; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; PEDIATRICS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 49349105619     PISSN: 13973142     EISSN: 13993046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3046.2007.00877.x     Document Type: Article

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