Abdominal drains in liver transplantation: Useful tool or useless dogma? A matched case-control study

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 96-101

  de Rougemont, Olivier ^a   Dutkowski, Philipp ^a   Weber, Markus ^a   Clavien, Pierre Alain ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL DRAINAGE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEMODIALYSIS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROPHYLAXIS; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DRAINAGE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RENAL DIALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 64049085912     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.21676     Document Type: Article

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