Surgery 1984 Mar;95(3):367-70

Reduced-sized orthotopic liver graft in hepatic transplantation in children

Bismuth H, Houssin D

Abstract

Because of the rarity of child donors, in cases of adult donors room requirement
for the liver graft is a major technical obstacle to liver transplantation in
children. To overcome this difficulty in a child, the authors performed an
orthotopic transplantation with an adult liver that had been reduced to the left
lobe. The absence of technically-related complications suggests that this
procedure might facilitate the performance of liver transplantation in children.