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Left hemihepatectomy in living donors with a thick middle hepatic vein draining the caudal half of the right liver.
Transplantation - 15 Apr 2000
Hui A M, Makuuchi M, Takayama T, Sano K, Kubota K, Harihara Y, Matsunami H
Abstract excerpt
Donor safety is the first consideration in living related liver transplantation. Left hemihepatectomy including the middle hepatic vein is a reasonable donor procedure for obtaining a large graft for living related liver transplantation. This procedure, however, needs to be modified in donors with hepatic venous variation. While carrying out donor hepatectomy, we encountered two cases showing a variant form of...
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