Optimizing outflow in piggyback liver transplantation without caval occlusion: The three-vein technique

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 88-92

  Tayar, Claude ^a   Kluger, Michael D ^a,b   Laurent, Alexis ^a   Cherqui, Daniel ^a,b  

^a HENRI MONDOR HOSPITAL   (France)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAVA VEIN OBSTRUCTION; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SUTURE; VEIN ANASTOMOSIS;

ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; HEPATIC VEINS; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES; VENA CAVA, INFERIOR;

EID: 79251511523     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.22201     Document Type: Article

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