Which limits to the ALPPS approach?

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 256, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Dokmak, Safi ^a   Belghiti, Jacques ^a  

^a 100 Bd du Général Leclerc Clichy ^*  (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; HEPATOIMINODIACETIC ACID TC 99M; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; ASSOCIATING LIVER PARTITION AND PORTAL VEIN LIGATION FOR STAGE HEPATECTOMY; BILE DUCT CARCINOMA; BILE DUCT FISTULA; BILE DUCT LIGATION; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; BILOMA; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COLORECTAL CANCER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GALLBLADDER CARCINOMA; HUMAN; LETTER; LIVER; LIVER ATROPHY; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER HYPERTROPHY; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER REGENERATION; LIVER RESECTION; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIMARY SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL RISK; VEIN LIGATION; VOLUMETRY;

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

EID: 84865448826     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e318265fd64     Document Type: Letter

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