A new technique to acquire additional liver volume for left lobe graft in living donor liver transplantation

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 55, Issue 85, 2008, Pages 1206-1210

  Imura, Satoru ^a   Shimada, Mitsuo ^a   Miyake, Kotaro ^a   Ikemoto, Tetsuya ^a   Marine, Yuji ^a   Yoshizumi, Tomoharu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

3D simulation; Additional volume; Left lobe graft; Living donor; Small for size

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LIVER; LIVER CIRCULATION; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MALE; METHODOLOGY; ORGAN SIZE; RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSPLANTATION;

ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER CIRCULATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 58149374453     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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