False Positive Tardus-Parvus Waveforms After Liver Transplantation: A Case of Wide Discrepancy Between Donor and Recipient Hepatic Arteries Mimicking Anastomotic Stenosis

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 3816-3818

  Urbani, L ^a   Morelli, L ^a   Campatelli, A ^a   Montin, U ^a   Catalano, G ^a   Biancofiore, G ^a   Bindi, L ^a   Bargellini, I ^a   Cioni, R ^a   Vignali, C ^a   Di Candio, G ^a   Mosca, F ^a   Filipponi, F ^a  

^a General and Transplantation Surgery   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYPROPYLENE;

ADULT; ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; ARTERY RECONSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT OCCLUSION; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEPATIC ARTERY; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HEPATIC ARTERY; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FUNCTION TESTS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MESENTERIC ARTERY, SUPERIOR; MIDDLE AGED; TISSUE DONORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 57549107331     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2008.06.082     Document Type: Article

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