Pediatric liver transplantation

Figure 7 Use of left lateral segment grafts to transplant children affected by hepatic malignancies, with replacement of the recipient’s inferior vena cava using an iliac vein graft from the donor. On the back table a wide V-shaped opening on the wall of the common iliac vein graft from the donor is made (A), and the left hepatic vein of the left lateral segment graft is anastomosed end-to-side to the V-shaped opening on the common iliac vein (B).