Characterization of the middle hepatic artery and its relevance to living donor liver transplantation

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 736-741

  Wang, Shaofa ^a,b   He, Xiaoshun ^a   Li, Ziping ^a   Peng, Zhenpeng ^a   Tam, Nga Lei ^a   Sun, Canhui ^a   Hu, Anbin ^a   Huang, Jiefu ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; GASTRODUODENAL ARTERY; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEFT LIVER ARTERY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE HEPATIC ARTERY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEPATIC ARTERY;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 77953645023     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.22082     Document Type: Article

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