A J-shaped subcostal incision reduces the incidence of abdominal wall complications in liver transplantation

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1655-1658

  Heisterkamp, Joos ^a   Marsman, Hendrik A ^a   Eker, Hassan ^a   Metselaar, Herold J ^a   Tilanus, Hugo W ^a   Kazemier, Geert ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STEROID;

ABDOMINAL DRAINAGE; ABDOMINAL WALL DEFECT; ARTICLE; ASCITES; AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; INCISIONAL HERNIA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LAPAROTOMY; LIVER POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OPERATION DURATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETRANSPLANTATION; SKIN INCISION; SURGICAL APPROACH; TREATMENT INDICATION; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

ABDOMINAL WALL; CADAVER; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEPATECTOMY; HERNIA; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LIVER; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; SURGICAL WOUND DEHISCENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 57849150442     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.21594     Document Type: Article

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