Aggressive combined resection of hepatic inferior vena cava, with replacement by a ringed expanded polytetrafluoroethylene graft, in living-donor liver transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma beyond the Milan criteria

Journal of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Sciences

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 719-724

  Matsuda, Hiroaki ^a   Sadamori, Hiroshi ^a   Shinoura, Susumu ^a   Umeda, Yuzo ^a   Yoshida, Ryuichi ^a   Satoh, Daisuke ^a   Utsumi, Masashi ^a   Onishi, Teppei ^a   Yagi, Takahito ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hepatocellular carcinoma; Inferior vena cava; Living donor liver transplantation; Venovenous bypass

Indexed keywords

POLITEF;

ADRENAL METASTASIS; ADRENALECTOMY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER HILUS; LIVER RESECTION; LIVING DONOR; MALE; MICROMETASTASIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; POLITEF IMPLANT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RISK REDUCTION; SCORING SYSTEM; TREATMENT INDICATION; VEIN BYPASS; VEIN GRAFT; CANCER STAGING; DEVICE REMOVAL; FATALITY; FOLLOW UP; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; REOPERATION; STENT; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADULT; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; DEVICE REMOVAL; FATAL OUTCOME; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE; REOPERATION; STENTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VENA CAVA, INFERIOR;

EID: 79952112528     PISSN: 18686974     EISSN: 18686982     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00534-010-0287-z     Document Type: Article

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