Journal of Pediatric Surgery
Volume 45, Issue 3 , Pages 545-548 , March 2010

Direct measurement of hepatic blood flow during living donor liver transplantation in children

  • Satoshi Omori

      Affiliations

    • Department of Hepatobiliary-Pancreatic Surgery, Juntendo University School of Medicine, 2-1-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8421, Japan
    • ,
  • Yoichi Ishizaki

      Affiliations

    • Department of Hepatobiliary-Pancreatic Surgery, Juntendo University School of Medicine, 2-1-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8421, Japan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +81 3 3813 3111; fax: +81 3 3818 7589.
    • ,
  • Hiroyuki Sugo

      Affiliations

    • Department of Hepatobiliary-Pancreatic Surgery, Juntendo University School of Medicine, 2-1-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8421, Japan
    • ,
  • Jiro Yoshimoto

      Affiliations

    • Department of Hepatobiliary-Pancreatic Surgery, Juntendo University School of Medicine, 2-1-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8421, Japan
    • ,
  • Hiroshi Imamura

      Affiliations

    • Department of Hepatobiliary-Pancreatic Surgery, Juntendo University School of Medicine, 2-1-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8421, Japan
    • ,
  • Atsuyuki Yamataka

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pediatric General and Urogenital Surgery, 2-1-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8421, Japan
    • ,
  • Seiji Kawasaki

      Affiliations

    • Department of Hepatobiliary-Pancreatic Surgery, Juntendo University School of Medicine, 2-1-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8421, Japan

Received 10 March 2009 ,Revised 9 June 2009 ,Accepted 10 June 2009.

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PII: S0022-3468(09)00505-3

doi: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2009.06.015

Journal of Pediatric Surgery
Volume 45, Issue 3 , Pages 545-548 , March 2010

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