Management of biliary strictures after living donor liver transplantation

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 599-600

  Tsujino, Takeshi ^a   Sugawara, Yasuhiko ^b   Omata, Masao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b University of Tokyo   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANASTOMOSIS; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; BILIARY TRACT DRAINAGE; CATHETERIZATION; CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMAN; LETTER; LIVER HYPERTROPHY; LIVER INJURY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSHEPATIC BILIARY DRAINAGE; PORTAL VEIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK REDUCTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

BALLOON DILATION; BILIARY TRACT DISEASES; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 68949085441     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: 10976779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2009.01.033     Document Type: Letter

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