Liver transplantation in children with hyper-reduced grafts - A single-center experience

Pediatric Transplantation

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 426-430

  Thomas, Naveen ^a   Thomas, Gordon ^a   Verran, Deborah ^b   Stormon, Michael ^a   O'Loughlin, Edward ^a   Shun, Albert ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL AT WESTMEAD   (Australia)

^b ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Children; Hyper reduced grafts; Liver transplant; Monosegment grafts; Pledgetted method of liver resection; Surgisis

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL CLOSURE; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; BILE LEAKAGE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DILATATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER SIZE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; ORGAN DONOR; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURGICAL THROMBECTOMY; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; INFANT; LIVER; MALE; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; ORGAN SIZE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; INFANT; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77950676177     PISSN: 13973142     EISSN: 13993046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3046.2010.01294.x     Document Type: Article

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