Surgery
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Successful hepatic vein reconstruction in 42 consecutive living related liver transplantations

,Accepted 19 February 2000.

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☆ Supported by a grant-in-aid for scientific research (08407036) from the Ministries of Health and Welfare and Education, Science and Culture of Japan.

☆☆ Reprint requests: Keiichi Kubota, MD, PhD, Professor and Chairman, Second Department of Surgery, Dokkyo University School of Medicine, Mibu, Shimotsuga, Tochigi 321-0293.

PII: S0039-6060(00)73013-3

doi: 10.1067/msy.2000.106783

Surgery
Volume 128, Issue 1 , Pages 48-53 , July 2000

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