Role of protocol ultrasonography for detecting biliary stricture in adult living donor liver transplantation recipients

BioScience Trends

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 62-65

  Que, Yanhong ^a,b   Kaneko, Junichi ^a   Sugawara, Yasuhiko ^a   Tamura, Sumihito ^a   Makuuchi, Masatoshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bile duct; Live donor; Stenosis

Indexed keywords

ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; STENOSIS, OCCLUSION AND OBSTRUCTION;

ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 77952314851     PISSN: 18817815     EISSN: 18817823     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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