Use of an internal jugular vein graft for middle hepatic vein tributary reconstruction in right-lobe living-donor liver transplantation

Transplantation

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Uchiyama, Hideaki ^a   Shirabe, Ken ^a   Yoshizumi, Tomoharu ^a   Ikegami, Toru ^a   Soejima, Yuji ^a   Taketomi, Akinobu ^a   Kayashima, Hiroto ^a   Morita, Kazutoyo ^a   Maehara, Yoshihiko ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; HEPATIC VEIN; HUMAN; INTERNAL JUGULAR VEIN; INTERNAL JUGULAR VEIN GRAFT; LETTER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MIDDLE HEPATIC VEIN; PORTAL VEIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THROMBOSIS; VEIN GRAFT; VEIN RECONSTRUCTION;

HEPATIC VEINS; HUMANS; JUGULAR VEINS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 84864242725     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TP.0b013e31825b75b6     Document Type: Letter

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