Playing play-doh to prevent postoperative liver failure: The "aLPPS" approach

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 255, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 415-417

  De Santibañes, Eduardo ^a   Clavien, Pierre Alain ^b  

^a HOSPITAL ITALIANO DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BILE DUCT CARCINOMA; CANCER SURGERY; COLORECTAL METASTASIS; HEMIHEPATECTOMY; HEPATOJEJUNOSTOMY; HUMAN; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER HYPERTROPHY; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER REGENERATION; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER TUMOR; METASTASIS; PORTAL VEIN EMBOLIZATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TUMOR GROWTH; VEIN LIGATION;

FEMALE; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; PORTAL VEIN;

EID: 84857652570     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e318248577d     Document Type: Review

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