Successful endoscopic and surgical management of non-anastomotic biliary strictures after liver transplantation - Case report

Annals of Transplantation

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 47-51

  Eurich, Dennis ^a   Seehofer, Daniel ^a   Veltzke Schlieker, Winfried ^a   Neuhaus, Ruth ^a   Neumann, Ulf ^a   Neuhaus, Peter ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Endoscopic intervention; ITBL; Transplant resection

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE;

ABDOMINAL DISCOMFORT; ADULT; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE BLOOD LEVEL; AORTA; ARTERY PERFUSION; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; ARTICLE; BALLOON DILATATION; BILE DUCT; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; BILE FLOW; BILE LEAKAGE; CASE REPORT; CAVA VEIN; CHOLESTASIS; ECHOGRAPHY; END TO END ANASTOMOSIS; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; EXTRAHEPATIC BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GAMMA GLUTAMYL TRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; HEMIHEPATECTOMY; HEPATIC ARTERY; HEPATIC DUCT; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HEPATOBILIARY SYSTEM; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC TYPE BILIARY LESION; LAVAGE; LIVER ATROPHY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER ISCHEMIA; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; PERCUTANEOUS DRAINAGE; PEROPERATIVE CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; PORTAL VEIN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; SIDE TO SIDE ANASTOMOSIS; STENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; T TUBE; THROMBECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASOUND; DIGESTIVE TRACT ENDOSCOPY; HEPATITIS C; LIVER RESECTION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; STENOSIS, OCCLUSION AND OBSTRUCTION; VIROLOGY; WOUND DRAINAGE;

BALLOON DILATATION; BILE DUCTS; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; DRAINAGE; ENDOSCOPY, DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; FEMALE; HEPATECTOMY; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; STENTS;

EID: 67549085396     PISSN: 14259524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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