A 7-month-old boy with biliary atresia accompanied by situs inversus and absent inferior vena cava (IVC) underwent living-donor liver transplantation (LDLT). Because a constriction in the recipient hepatic vein (HV) was detected during the preparation of the HV in LDLT, a dissection in the cranial d
Case of living donor liver transplantation in a patient with biliary atresia combined with situs inversus
โ Scribed by H.H. Lee; D.S. Lee; K.E. Yoo; K.W. Lee; S.J. Kim; J.W. Joh; J.M. Seo; Y.H. Choe; S.K. Lee
- Book ID
- 116930268
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 46 KB
- Volume
- 36
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0041-1345
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