Mass clamping of the hilum to facilitate difficult hepatectomy during liver transplantation: A single center 10 year experience

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 250, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 273-276

  Pararas, Nikolaos ^a,b   Levi, David ^a   Selvaggi, Gennaro ^a   Moon, Jang ^a   Nishida, Seigo ^a   Tryphonopoulos, Panagiotis ^a   Island, Eddie ^a   Tzakis, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Highland Professional Building   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CLAMP; ERYTHROCYTE CONCENTRATE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEPATIC HILAR; HILAR MASS CLAMPING; HUMAN; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER STRUCTURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MORTALITY; OPERATION DURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL TIME; BILE DUCT; COHORT ANALYSIS; HEMOSTASIS; HEPATIC ARTERY; INSTRUMENTATION; LIVER DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PORTAL VEIN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; BILE DUCTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HEMOSTASIS, SURGICAL; HEPATECTOMY; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMANS; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PORTAL VEIN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 68949104117     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e3181b17161     Document Type: Article

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