title: New venoplasty technique for the left liver plus caudate lobe in living donor liver transplantation.
abstract: A new technique is reported for complete venous drainage for a left liver with caudate lobe graft when a short hepatic vein and left and middle hepatic veins are located close to each other.
authors.affiliation: Artificial Organ and Transplantation Surgery Division, University of Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: Yasuhiko
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Sugawara
authors.forename: Masatoshi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Makuuchi
authors.forename: Junichi
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kaneko
authors.forename: Takao
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ohkubo
authors.forename: Yuichi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Matsui
authors.forename: Hiroshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Imamura
mesh_terms: D006503:Hepatic Veins / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D016031:Liver Transplantation / Q000379:methods*; D019520:Living Donors