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: Reply

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 261, Issue 6, 2015, Pages e174-e175

  López Andújar, Rafael ^a   Montalvá, Eva María ^a   Vergara, Fabio Alejandro ^a  

^a La Fe University   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; BILE LEAKAGE; CHOLANGITIS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMMON BILE DUCT STONE; HUMAN; LETTER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SPAIN; T TUBE; ANASTOMOSIS; DEVICES; FEMALE; MALE; PROCEDURES;

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

EID: 84946239126     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000000722     Document Type: Letter

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