Hepatic artery reconstruction with doubl
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Mutsumi Okazaki; Hirotaka Asato; Akihiko Takushima; Takashi Nakatsuka; Shunji Sa
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Article
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2005
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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In living-donor liver transplantation (LDLT), reconstruction of the hepatic artery is challenging because the recipient artery is located deep in the abdominal cavity and the operating field is limited. Also, the hepatic artery of the graft is short and the recipient artery is occasionally damaged.