An improved technique for liver transection using a new device for soft coagulation in living donor hepatectomy

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 59, Issue 118, 2012, Pages 1907-1910

  Ishiko, Takatoshi ^a   Inomata, Yukihiro ^a   Beppu, Toru ^a   Asonuma, Katuhiro ^a   Okajima, Hideki ^a   Takeiti, Takayuki ^a   Tikamoto, Akira ^a   Yamamoto, Hidekazu ^a   Baba, Hideo ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hepatectomy; Liver transplantation; Living donor; New device; Soft coagulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BILE LEAKAGE; BLEEDING; DEVICE SAFETY; DUODENUM ULCER; ELECTRODE; FEMALE; FORCEPS; HEMIHEPATECTOMY; HUMAN; HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA; LEFT HEMIHEPATECTOMY; LEFT LATERAL SECTIONECTOMY; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER SURGERY; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PLEURA EFFUSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMIHEPATECTOMY; STOMACH DISEASE; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; ELECTROCOAGULATION; ELECTRODES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; JAPAN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84867722854     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5754/hge10088     Document Type: Article

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