Intimal dissection of the hepatic artery following transarterial embolization for hepatocellular carcinoma: An intraoperative problem in adult living donor liver transplantation

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1553-1556

  Lin, Tsan Shiun ^a   Chiang, Yuan Cheng ^a   Chen, Chao Long ^a   Concejero, Allan M ^a   Cheng, Yu Fan ^b   Wang, Chih Chi ^a   Wang, Shih Ho ^a   Liu, Yueh Wei ^a   Yang, Chin Hsiang ^a   Yong, Chee Chien ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; HEPARIN; UROKINASE;

ARTERY DISSECTION; ARTERY RECONSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT OCCLUSION; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL MORTALITY;

ADULT; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FEMALE; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TUNICA INTIMA;

EID: 72949084794     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.21888     Document Type: Article

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