title: [Surgical techniques of liver transplantation].
abstract: Over the past several decades, liver transplantation has experienced remarkable advances in surgical techniques, including venovenous bypass, piggyback method without venovenous bypass, piggyback method with cavaplasty, living-related liver transplantation, splitting liver transplantation, cluster organ transplantation, and liver retransplantation. Based on his experience on 582 case of liver transplantation, the author reviews these techniques and discusses their advantages and disadvantages.
authors.affiliation: Organ Transplantation Center, the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhongshan University, Guangzhou 510080, China.
authors.forename: Xiao-Shun
authors.initials: XS
authors.lastname: He
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D016031:Liver Transplantation / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends; D019520:Living Donors; D012086:Reoperation