Extra-anatomical hepatic artery reconstruction in living donor liver transplantation: Can this procedure save hepatic grafts?

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1054-1061

  Uchiyama, Hideaki ^a   Shirabe, Ken ^a   Taketomi, Akinobu ^a   Soejima, Yuji ^a   Ninomiya, Mizuki ^a   Kayashima, Hiroto ^a   Ikegami, Toru ^a   Maehara, Yoshihiko ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; CHOLESTASIS; FEMALE; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORGAN DONOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPLEEN ARTERY; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GASTROEPIPLOIC ARTERY; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMANS; INFANT; JAPAN; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SPLENIC ARTERY; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956919295     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.22119     Document Type: Article

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