The evolution of surgical techniques in clinical liver transplantation. A review

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 546-564

  Polak, Wojciech G ^a   Peeters, Paul M J G ^a   Slooff, Maarten J H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Auxiliary; Biliary anastomosis; Domino; Hepatic artery; Inferior vena cava; Living donor; Piggyback; Portal vein; Reperfusion; Revascularization

Indexed keywords

ARTERY CLAMP; ARTERY RECONSTRUCTION; BILE DUCT BYPASS; BILIARY TRACT DRAINAGE; CHOLECYSTOSTOMY; CHOLEDOCHOJEJUNOSTOMY; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CRYOPRESERVATION; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DOMINO LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; FISH MOUTH TECHNIQUE; HEMATOMA; HEMODYNAMICS; HEPARINIZATION; HEPATOJEJUNOSTOMY; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; LUNG EMBOLISM; LYMPHOCELE; NERVE INJURY; PIGGYBACK TECHNIQUE; PORTAL VEIN; PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS; PORTOCAVAL SHUNT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SAFETY; SPLIT LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; THROMBECTOMY; VEIN BYPASS; VEIN RECONSTRUCTION; WOUND INFECTION;

HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING;

EID: 68349137766     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: 13990012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0012.2009.00994.x     Document Type: Review

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