Territorial belonging of the middle hepatic vein in living liver donor candidates evaluated by three-dimensional computed tomographic reconstruction and virtual liver resection

British Journal of Surgery

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 206-213

  Radtke, A ^a,b   Sgourakis, G ^a,c   Sotiropoulos, G C ^a,b   Molmenti, E P ^a   Saner, F H ^a   Timm, S ^b   Malago M ^a   Lang, H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

^c RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; HEPATECTOMY; HEPATIC VEINS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 60049086158     PISSN: 00071323     EISSN: 13652168     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bjs.6444     Document Type: Article

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