How can we safely climb the ALPPS?

Updates in Surgery

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 175-177

  Kokudo, Norihiro ^a   Shindoh, Junichi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BILIARY TRACT TUMOR; EDITORIAL; HEALTH; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LIGATION; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; PORTAL VEIN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SURVIVAL RATE; VASCULAR SURGERY;

BILIARY TRACT NEOPLASMS; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LIGATION; LIVER NEOPLASMS; PORTAL VEIN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SURVIVAL RATE; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 84883591961     PISSN: 2038131X     EISSN: 20383312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13304-013-0215-2     Document Type: Editorial

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