Our initial experience with ALPPS technique: Encouraging results

Updates in Surgery

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 167-172

  Sala, Sofía ^a   Ardiles, Victoria ^a   Ulla, Marina ^a   Alvarez, Fernando ^a   Pekolj, Juan ^a   De Santibañes, Eduardo ^a  

^a HOSPITAL ITALIANO DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

ALPPS; Future liver remnant; Liver partition; Liver tumors; Postoperative liver failure

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LIGATION; LIVER; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER TUMOR; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; PORTAL VEIN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; ARGENTINA; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; LIGATION; LIVER; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; PORTAL VEIN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84871901938     PISSN: 2038131X     EISSN: 20383312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13304-012-0175-y     Document Type: Article

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