Defining benchmarks for major liver surgery: A multicenter analysis of 5202 living liver donors

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 264, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 492-499

  Rössler, Fabian ^a   Sapisochin, Gonzalo ^b   Song, GiWon ^c   Lin, Yu Hung ^d   Simpson, Mary Ann ^e   Hasegawa, Kiyoshi ^f   Laurenzi, Andrea ^g   Cabús, Santiago Sánchez ^h   Nunez, Milton Inostroza ⁱ   Gatti, Andrea ^j   Beltrame, Magali Chahdi ^k   Slankamenac, Ksenija ^a   Greig, Paul D ^b   Lee, Sung Gyu ^c   Chen, Chao Long ^d   Grant, David R ^b   Pomfret, Elizabeth A ^e   Kokudo, Norihiro ^f   Cherqui, Daniel ^g   Olthoff, Kim M ^l   Shaked, Abraham ^l   García Valdecasas, Juan Carlos ^h   Lerut, Jan ⁱ   Troisi, Roberto I ^j   De Santibanes, Martin ^k   Petrowsky, Henrik ^a   Puhan, Milo A ^m   Clavien, Pierre Alain ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^d CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^e LAHEY HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^g HÔPITAL PAUL BROUSSE   (France)

^h HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

ⁱ CLINIQUES UNIVERSITAIRES SAINT LUC   (Belgium)

^j GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^k HOSPITAL ITALIANO DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^l UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

more..

Author keywords

Comprehensive complication index; Left hemi hepatectomy; Living donor; Right hemi hepatectomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BILIARY TRACT DISEASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER SURGERY; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR SURGERY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; BENCHMARKING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL TRIAL; LENGTH OF STAY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; BENCHMARKING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER FAILURE; LIVING DONORS; MALE; PATIENT READMISSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 84978655501     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000001849     Document Type: Article

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