Portal vein reconstruction in pediatric living donor liver transplantation for patients younger than 1 year with biliary atresia

Journal of Pediatric Surgery

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 523-527

  Kanazawa, Hiroyuki ^a   Sakamoto, Seisuke ^a   Fukuda, Akinari ^a   Shigeta, Takanobu ^a   Loh, Dale L ^b   Kakiuchi, Toshihiko ^a   Karaki, Chiaki ^a   Miyazaki, Osamu ^a   Nosaka, Syunsuke ^a   Nakazawa, Atsuko ^a   Kasahara, Mureo ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHILD HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT   (Japan)

^b University Children's Medical Institute   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Biliary atresia; Living donor liver transplantation; Portal vein complications; Portal vein reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BILE DUCT ATRESIA; CHOLANGITIS; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INFANT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; PORTAL VEIN RECONSTRUCTION; PORTOENTEROSTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VEIN GRAFT;

BILIARY ATRESIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MESENTERIC VEINS; PORTAL VEIN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR GRAFTING;

EID: 84858240170     PISSN: 00223468     EISSN: 15315037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2011.09.036     Document Type: Article

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