Biliary reconstruction, its complications and management of biliary complications after adult liver transplantation: A systematic review of the incidence, risk factors and outcome

Transplant International

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 379-392

  Akamatsu, Nobuhisa ^a,b   Sugawara, Yasuhiko ^b   Hashimoto, Daijo ^a  

^a SAITAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biliary leakage; Biliary stricture; Risk factor; Systematic review; T tube

Indexed keywords

BILE DUCT BYPASS; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; BILE DUCT RECONSTRUCTION; BILE LEAKAGE; CADAVER DONOR; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; HUMAN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSHEPATIC DRAINAGE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETRANSPLANTATION; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL APPROACH; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; T TUBE;

ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ANASTOMOTIC LEAK; BILE DUCTS; BILIARY TRACT DISEASES; CADAVER; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; DRAINAGE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RISK FACTORS; TISSUE DONORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79952592012     PISSN: 09340874     EISSN: 14322277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-2277.2010.01202.x     Document Type: Review

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