Surgical guide including innovative techniques for orthotopic liver transplantation in the rat: Key techniques and pitfalls in whole and split liver grafts

Annals of Gastroenterology

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 270-295

  Hori, T ^a,b   Uemoto, S ^b   Zhao, X ^c   Chen, F ^a   Baine, A M T ^a   Gardner, L B ^a   Ohashi, N ^d   Conkle, F ^a   Castanedes Casey, M ^a   Phillips, V R ^a   Rousseau, L G ^a   Murray, M ^a   Kamo, N ^e   Nguyen, J H ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal model; Liver transplantation; Microsurgery; Rat; Reperfusion injury; Ultra microsurgery

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GRAFT SURVIVAL; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; LAPAROTOMY; LIVER BLOOD FLOW; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MICROSURGERY; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; RAT; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME;

EID: 78449306353     PISSN: 11087471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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