Volumetric and functional recovery of the remnant liver after major liver resection with prior portal vein embolization

Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1464-1469

  van denEsschert, Jacomina W ^a   deGraaf, Wilmar ^a   van Lienden, Krijn P ^a   Busch, Olivier R ^a   Heger, Michal ^a   van Delden, Otto M ^a   Gouma, Dirk J ^a   Bennink, Roelof J ^a   Laméris, Johan S ^a   Gulik, Thomas M ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

CT volume; Interventional radiography; Liver; Liver regeneration; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONVALESCENCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LIVER; LIVER REGENERATION; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER TUMOR; MALE; METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LIVER REGENERATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 70349431193     PISSN: 1091255X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11605-009-0929-0     Document Type: Article

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