Abstract
Hitherto the partial liver transplantation with primary revascularization has never been performed and all of the studies of liver transplantation with revascularization was that of the whole liver transplantation.
The authors invented the method of partial liver transplantation with pri-mary revascularization, and discussed its theoretical background and its clinical applicability. Using this method for canine experiments, 20 heterotopic auto-transplantations and 4 homotransplantations were so far accomplished. The transplantations were performed at various sites, such as in the right renal space after nephrectomy or in the right infrarenal region or in the subcutaneous space of the right thigh or in the right iliac fossa and in the pelvis. The most favorable location seemed to be in the right infrarenal portion as seen in II C type of anastomosis in our experiment.
