Partial or complete mesohepatectomy combined with resection of the hilar bifurcation in cases of Klatskin tumors: a reasonable strategy?

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 198, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 297-298

  Sotiropoulos, Georgios C ^a,b   Lang, Hauke ^a,b   Molmenti, Ernesto P ^b   Kaiser, Gernot M ^b   Paul, Andreas ^b   Broelsch, Christoph E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BILE DUCT CARCINOMA; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; KLATSKIN TUMOR; LETTER; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TUMOR; PARTIAL HEPATECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ANASTOMOSIS, ROUX-EN-Y; BILE DUCT NEOPLASMS; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; FEMALE; HEPATECTOMY; HEPATIC DUCT, COMMON; HUMANS; KLATSKIN'S TUMOR; LENGTH OF STAY; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 67650924597     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2008.11.022     Document Type: Letter

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