Portal vein complications after adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation

Transplant International

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1136-1144

  Kyoden, Yusuke ^a   Tamura, Sumihito ^a   Sugawara, Yasuhiko ^a   Matsui, Yuichi ^a   Togashi, Junichi ^a   Kaneko, Junichi ^a   Kokudo, Norihiro ^a   Makuuchi, Masatoshi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPANESE RED CROSS MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Liver transplantation; Living donor; Portal vein

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT MONITORING; PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE; VEIN GRAFT;

ADULT; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MIDDLE AGED; PORTAL VEIN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THROMBECTOMY; THROMBOSIS; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 55649106611     PISSN: 09340874     EISSN: 14322277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-2277.2008.00752.x     Document Type: Article

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