Staged approach for abdominal wound closure following combined liver and intestinal transplantation from living donors in pediatric patients

Pediatric Transplantation

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 177-181

  Grevious, Mark A ^a   Iqbal, Ronak ^a   Raofi, Vandad ^a   Beatty, Elizabeth ^a   Oberholzer, Jose' ^a   Cohen, Mimis ^a   Abcarian, Herand ^a   Testa, Giuliano ^a   Benedetti, Enrico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdominal wall reconstruction; Intestine liver transplant; Living donor; Mesh reconstruction; Pediatric wound closure; Short gut syndrome

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL COMPARTMENT SYNDROME; ABDOMINAL INJURY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROSCHISIS; GRANULATION TISSUE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTESTINE TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MALE; NECROSIS; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SHORT BOWEL SYNDROME; SKIN FISTULA; SPLIT THICKNESS SKIN GRAFT; SURGICAL APPROACH; VASCULAR DISEASE; VOLVULUS; WOUND CLOSURE;

ABDOMINAL CAVITY; ABDOMINAL WALL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HERNIA; HUMANS; INFANT; INTESTINES; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL MESH; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 59449092181     PISSN: 13973142     EISSN: 13993046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3046.2008.00966.x     Document Type: Article

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