A learning curve for living donor liver transplantation

Digestive and Liver Disease

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 597-602

  Li, Chuan ^a   Mi, Kai ^a   Wen, Tian fu ^a   Yan, Lu nan ^a   Li, Bo ^a   Yang, Jia ying ^a   Xu, Ming qing ^a   Wang, Wen Tao ^a   Wei, Yong gang ^a  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Learning curve; Liver transplantation; Living donor

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN;

ABDOMINAL BLEEDING; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASCITES; BILE LEAKAGE; BLEEDING; CHOLESTASIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LEARNING CURVE; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PLEURA EFFUSION; PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; THORACOCENTESIS; WOUND DEHISCENCE; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LEARNING CURVE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84862831749     PISSN: 15908658     EISSN: 18783562     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dld.2012.01.016     Document Type: Article

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