Severe liver trauma: The transplant surgeon's perspective. A case report

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 55, Issue 85, 2008, Pages 1458-1459

  Catalano, Gabriele ^a   De Simone, Paolo ^a   Montin, Umberto ^a   Coletti, Laura ^a   Tincani, Giovanni ^a   Urbani, Lucio ^a   Biancofiore, Gianni ^a   Filipponi, Franco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Indications patients; Liver failure; Liver transplantation; Liver trauma; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; INJURY; LIVER; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; SEPSIS;

HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER FAILURE, ACUTE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; SEPSIS; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58149378204     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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