Biliary complications after living donor liver transplantation

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1127-1136

  Wang, Shao Fa ^a,b   Huang, Zhi Yong ^a,b   Chen, Xiao Ping ^a,b  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^b BEIJING HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; GLUCAGON; MORPHINE;

ANASTOMOSIS; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; BALLOON DILATATION; BILE DUCT; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; BILE LEAKAGE; BILIARY TRACT DRAINAGE; BILIARY TRACT SURGERY; BLEEDING; CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; CHOLANGITIS; COMMON BILE DUCT STONE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; HEPATIC ARTERY; HEPATOJEJUNOSTOMY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; LIVING DONOR LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; MORBIDITY; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSHEPATIC CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETRANSPLANTATION; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ANASTOMOTIC LEAK; BILE DUCTS; BILIARY TRACT DISEASES; CHOLESTASIS; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 80053230094     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.22381     Document Type: Review

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