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Perioperative Blood Transfusion and Long-Term Outcomes After Resection of Hilar Cholangiocarcinoma

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    1. Department of Hepatic Surgery, Eastern Hepatobiliary Surgery Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, 200438, China

      Yi-Nan Shen, Han Zhang, Jun-Hua Lu & Tian Yang

    2. Recanati/Miller Transplantation Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA

      Myron E. Schwartz & Tian Yang

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    Shen, YN., Zhang, H., Lu, JH. et al. Perioperative Blood Transfusion and Long-Term Outcomes After Resection of Hilar Cholangiocarcinoma. J Gastrointest Surg 19, 1192–1193 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11605-015-2822-3

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    Keywords

    • Cholangiocarcinoma
    • Lymphovascular Invasion
    • Hilar Cholangiocarcinoma
    • Vascular Resection
    • Preoperative Hemoglobin