Associating liver partition and portal vein ligation for staged hepatectomy (ALPPS): What is gained and what is lost?

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 256, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Aloia, Thomas A ^a   Vauthey, Jean Nicolas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROWTH FACTOR; MICROSPHERE;

ADVANCED CANCER; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; ASCITES; BILIARY TRACT DISEASE; CANCER SURGERY; CHOLESTASIS; HEPATOBILIARY SYSTEM TUMOR; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LETTER; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER HYPERTROPHY; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER PARTITION; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER SURGERY; MORBIDITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PORTAL VEIN; PORTAL VEIN LIGATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; STAGED HEPATECTOMY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; VEIN LIGATION; WOUND COMPLICATION;

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

EID: 84865526366     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e318265fd3e     Document Type: Letter

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