Simplified technique for one-orifice vein reconstruction in left-lobe liver transplantation

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 115-116

  Yamazaki, Shintaro ^a   Takayama, Tadatoshi ^a   Inoue, Kazuto ^a   Higaki, Tokio ^a   Makuuchi, Masatoshi ^b  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b JAPANESE RED CROSS MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL SHUNT; HUMAN; ILIAC VEIN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; LIVER LOBECTOMY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; ONE ORIFICE VEIN RECONSTRUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VASCULAR PATENCY; VEIN BLOOD FLOW; VEIN GRAFT; VEIN RECONSTRUCTION;

ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; CARDIOVASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; CRYOPRESERVATION; HEPATIC VEINS; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; REGENERATION; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES; VENA CAVA, INFERIOR;

EID: 64049093016     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.21580     Document Type: Article

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