Splenic artery occlusion for small-for-size syndrome: Better late than never but early is the best

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 124-125

  Lo, Chung Mau ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTERY LIGATION; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BODY WEIGHT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EARLY INTERVENTION; EDITORIAL; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT PERFUSION; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAHEPATIC CHOLESTASIS; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER ISCHEMIA; LIVER SIZE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER WEIGHT; LIVING DONOR; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD PRESSURE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETRANSPLANTATION; SMALL FOR SIZE SYNDROME; SPLEEN ARTERY; SPLEEN WEIGHT;

ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; ORGAN SIZE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SPLENIC ARTERY; SYNDROME;

EID: 67649184138     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.21696     Document Type: Editorial

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