A crisis in transplantation: Too much demand for too few organs

Transplantation Reviews

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 112-120

  Tilney, Nicholas L ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

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EID: 0000001489     PISSN: 0955470X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0955-470X(98)80018-9     Document Type: Article

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