Intraoperative functional liver remnant assessment with indocyanine green clearance: Another toehold for climbing the "ALPPS"

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 261, Issue 2, 2015, Pages e43-e45

  Lau, Lawrence ^a   Christophi, Christopher ^a   Muralidharan, Vijayaragavan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; DIGLYCINE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; INDOCYANINE GREEN;

ADHESION BARRIER; AGED; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; ASSISTED LIVER PARTITION WITH PORTAL VEIN LIGATION; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; COLORECTAL LIVER METASTASIS; DRUG CLEARANCE; HEMIHEPATECTOMY; HEPATIC ARTERY; HEPATOBILIARY SCINTISCANNING; HUMAN; LETTER; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LIVER FUNCTION TEST KIT; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER WEIGHT; MALE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VASCULAR CLAMP; VEIN LIGATION; FEMALE; LIVER NEOPLASMS; PORTAL VEIN; PROCEDURES;

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

EID: 84927030122     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000000608     Document Type: Letter

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