Associating liver partition and portal vein ligation for staged hepatectomy: Will the morbidity of an additional surgery be outweighed by better patient outcomes in the long-term?

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 256, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Jain, Hemant A ^a   Bharathy, Kishore Gs ^a   Negi, Sanjay S ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF LIVER AND BILIARY SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; FOLLOW UP; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; IN SITU SPLITTING; INFORMED CONSENT; LAPAROTOMY; LENGTH OF STAY; LETTER; LIVER HYPERTROPHY; LIVER RESECTION; MORBIDITY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PORTAL VEIN; PORTAL VEIN LIGATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENCE FREE SURVIVAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; VEIN LIGATION;

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

EID: 84865514030     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e318265fe4f     Document Type: Letter

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