Abdominal drains in liver transplantatio
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Olivier de Rougemont; Philipp Dutkowski; Markus Weber; Pierre-Alain Clavien
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Article
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2009
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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On the basis of the growing evidence from randomized trials that routine prophylactic drainage is unnecessary in liver surgery or even harmful in chronic liver disease, we challenged the concept of prophylactic drainage in orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT). Since September 2006, we omitted drai