A question seeking for an answer: Use of T-tube in the era of liver transplantation with grafts from extended criteria donors and donors after cardiac death

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 261, Issue 6, 2015, Pages e173-e174

  Moris, Demetrios ^a,b   Sotiropoulos, Georgios C ^a   Vernadakis, Spiridon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BILE DUCT BYPASS; BILE DUCT DISEASE; BILE DUCT RECONSTRUCTION; BILE LEAKAGE; CHOLEDOCHOCHOLEDOCHOSTOMY; CHOLEDOCHOJEJUNOSTOMY; CHOLESTASIS; COLD ISCHEMIA; DISEASE SEVERITY; END STAGE LIVER DISEASE; END TO END ANASTOMOSIS; HEART DEATH; HUMAN; ISCHEMIA; ISCHEMIC TYPE BILIARY LESION; LETTER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MORBIDITY; ORGAN DONOR; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPERFUSION INJURY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; T TUBE; UNITED STATES; VATER PAPILLA STENOSIS; WESTERN EUROPE; ANASTOMOSIS; DEVICES; FEMALE; MALE; PROCEDURES;

ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE;

EID: 84946221718     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000000692     Document Type: Letter

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