Biliary reconstruction using a side-to-side choledochocholedochostomy with or without T-tube in deceased donor liver transplantation: A prospective randomized trial

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 250, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 766-770

  Weiss, Sascha ^a   Schmidt, Sven Ch ^a   Ulrich, Frank ^a   Pascher, Andreas ^a   Schumacher, Guido ^a   Stockmann, Martin ^a   Puhl, Gero ^a   Guckelberger, Olaf ^a   Neumann, Ulf P ^a   Pratschke, Johann ^a   Neuhaus, Peter ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; BILE DUCT RECONSTRUCTION; CHOLANGITIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE REMOVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PANCREATITIS; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REOPERATION; SIDE TO SIDE ANASTOMOSIS; SIDE TO SIDE CHOLEDOCHOCHOLEDOCHOSTOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; T TUBE;

ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; CHOLEDOCHOSTOMY; DRAINAGE; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 70449371918     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e3181bd920a     Document Type: Article

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