The value of microsurgery in liver research

Liver International

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1132-1140

  Aller, Maria Angeles ^a   Mendez, Marta ^b   Nava, Maria Paz ^a   Lopez, Laudino ^b   Arias, Jorge Luis Arias ^b   Arias, Jaime ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cholestasis; Hepatectomy; Liver; Microsurgery; Portacaval shunt; Rat

Indexed keywords

KETOTIFEN; VITAMIN K GROUP;

BILE DUCT LIGATION; CHOLESTASIS; END TO SIDE ANASTOMOSIS; EXTRAHEPATIC BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; LIVER ATROPHY; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER REGENERATION; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER SURGERY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MICROSURGERY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PORTAL VEIN OBSTRUCTION; PORTOCAVAL SHUNT; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; REVIEW; SURGICAL MICROSCOPE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURGICAL TRAINING; ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; ANIMAL; ATROPHY; BILIARY TRACT SURGERY; DISEASE MODEL; HETEROTOPIC TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RAT;

ANIMALS; ATROPHY; BILIARY TRACT SURGICAL PROCEDURES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HEPATECTOMY; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MICROSURGERY; PORTACAVAL SHUNT, SURGICAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RATS; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROTOPIC; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 70350075628     PISSN: 14783223     EISSN: 14783231     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1478-3231.2009.02078.x     Document Type: Review

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