Chronological improvement of portal flow in the remnant right lobe liver of a left lobe living donor

Transplantation

Volumn 88, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 598-600

  Sugimachi, Keishi ^a   Toshima, Takeo ^a   Taketomi, Akinobu ^a   Soejima, Yuji ^a   Gion, Tomonobu ^a   Ikegami, Toru ^a   Nagata, Shigeyuki ^a   Takeishi, Kazuki ^a   Maehara, Yoshihiko ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD FLOW; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; HEPATIC VEIN; HUMAN; LETTER; LIVER BLOOD FLOW; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER WEIGHT; LIVING DONOR; NONHUMAN; ORGAN DONOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VENOUS CONGESTION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HEPATECTOMY; HEPATIC VEINS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LIVER; LIVER CIRCULATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; PORTAL VEIN; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 70349100857     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TP.0b013e3181b1600f     Document Type: Letter

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