Endoscopic stent placement above the intact sphincter of Oddi for biliary strictures after living donor liver transplantation
✍ Scribed by Akira Kurita, Yuzo Kodama, Ryuki Minami, Yojiro Sakuma…
- Book ID
- 120914481
- Publisher
- Springer Japan
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 383 KB
- Volume
- 48
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0944-1174
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Biliary strictures are a major cause of morbidity and mortality for liver transplant recipients. The endoscopic management of biliary strictures is not well established after living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) in comparison with deceased donor liver transplantation. The aims of this study wer
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