Hepatic artery microvascular anastomosis in pediatric living donor liver transplantation: A review of 35 consecutive cases by a single microvascular surgeon

Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 439-443

  Panossian, Andre ^a   Diamond, Ivan ^b   Fecteau, Annie ^b   Grant, David ^b   Zuker, Ronald ^b  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; ARTICLE; BILE LEAKAGE; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; CHILD; CHOLANGITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMMON BILE DUCT STENOSIS; END TO END ANASTOMOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEPATIC ARTERY; HEPATIC ARTERY THROMBOSIS; HUMAN; INFANT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER VEIN THROMBOSIS; LIVING DONOR; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MICROVASCULAR SURGERY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIMARY SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SURGEON; SURGICAL PATIENT;

ADOLESCENT; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; BILIARY ATRESIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMANS; INFANT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MICROSURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 70349282237     PISSN: 0743684X     EISSN: 10988947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1223853     Document Type: Article

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