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Liver transplantation by "face-à-face" venacavaplasty
H Bismuth1, D Castaing, D J Sherlock
1Hepatobiliary Surgery and Liver Transplantation Unit, South Paris Faculty of Medicine, Paul Brousse Hospital, Villejuif, France.
Surgery
|February 1, 1992
Abstract:
A modification of the technique of liver transplantation by the face-à-face venacavaplasty is described and the use in four patients reported. This technique enables livers with a small vena cava to be inserted in an anatomic fashion and should help increase the use of such grafts where disparity between vessel size exists.