title: Reconstruction of jugular and portal blood flows using remodeled great saphenous vein grafts.
abstract: Remodeled great saphenous vein grafts were used to reconstruct both jugular and portal veins. The great saphenous vein was split longitudinally and sutured side-to-side to construct a vessel twice the diameter and one half the length of the original vessel. This graft was used with good results for reconstruction of the jugular veins in a patient after a bilateral neck dissection for tongue cancer and for a portal vein in a patient after resection for cancer in the head of the pancreas.
authors.affiliation: First Department of Surgery, Kanazawa University School of Medicine, Japan.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Urayama
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Katada
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Matsumoto
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Ishida
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ohmura
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Watanabe
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Muroki
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000714:Anastomosis, Surgical; D001807:Blood Vessel Prosthesis / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007601:Jugular Veins / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D010190:Pancreatic Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery; D011169:Portal Vein / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D012501:Saphenous Vein / Q000637:transplantation*; D014062:Tongue Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery; D014654:Vascular Patency