A novel end-to-side anastomosis technique for hepatic rearterialization in rat orthotopic liver transplantation to accommodate size mismatches between vessels

European Surgical Research

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 53-62

  Huang, H ^a   Deng, M ^a   Jin, H ^a   Liu, A ^a,c   Dirsch, O ^b   Dahmen, U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^b DEUTSCHES HERZZENTRUM BERLIN   (Germany)

^c SHAOXING PEOPLE S HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

Anastomosis; Hepatic artery; Rat liver transplantation; Rearterialization

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOARCHITECTURE; DONOR; END TO SIDE ANASTOMOSIS; HEPATIC ARTERY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPER HEPATIC ARTERY; RAT; RECIPIENT; REVASCULARIZATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SUTURING METHOD; VASCULAR PATENCY;

ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ANIMALS; HEPATIC ARTERY; LIVER CIRCULATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MODELS, ANIMAL; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79957808277     PISSN: 0014312X     EISSN: 14219921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000324905     Document Type: Article

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