Minimally invasive donor hepatectomy: Evolution from hybrid to pure laparoscopic techniques

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 261, Issue 1, 2015, Pages e3-e4

  Takahara, Takeshi ^a   Wakabayashi, Go ^a   Hasegawa, Yasushi ^a   Nitta, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a IWATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; DONOR; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LAPAROSCOPY; LEARNING CURVE; LETTER; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER SURGERY; LIVING DONOR; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; MORBIDITY; PNEUMOPERITONEUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDARDIZATION; SURGICAL RISK; PROCEDURES; TRANSPLANTATION;

HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; LIVING DONORS; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING;

EID: 84927172649     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000000898     Document Type: Letter

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