Successful conservative therapy for portal vein thrombosis after living donor liver transplantation

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Published on: August 14, 2017

J Kaneko1, Y Sugawara, T Ohkubo

  • 1Artificial Organ and Transplantation Division, Department of Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8655, Japan.

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