Crucial issues of hepatic artery reconstruction in living donor liver transplantation: Our experience with 133 cases at Dar El-Fouad Hospital, Egypt

Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 307-312

  Amin, Ayman Abdel Wahab ^a   Kamel Jr , Refaat ^a   Hatata, Yasser ^a   Attia, Hussein ^a   Marawan, Ibrahim ^a   Hosney, Adel ^a   El Malt, Osama ^a   Tanaka, Kiochi ^a  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Hepatic artery reconstruction; Liver transplantation; Microsurgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; ARTERY RECONSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; DEVICE; DIASTOLE; EGYPT; FEMALE; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER BLOOD FLOW; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MAGNIFYING LOUPE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROANASTOMOSIS; MICROANGIOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; RISK REDUCTION; SALVAGE THERAPY; SURGICAL MICROSCOPE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; THROMBOEMBOLISM; THROMBOSIS; VASCULAR PATENCY;

ADULT; BILIARY ATRESIA; EGYPT; FEMALE; HEPATIC ARTERY; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THROMBOSIS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 67649744148     PISSN: 0743684X     EISSN: 10988947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1215523     Document Type: Article

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