Decreased mortality from technical failure improves results in pediatric liver transplantation

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 131, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 887-893

  Kuang, Anna A ^a   Rosenthal, Philip ^a   Roberts, John P ^a   Renz, John F ^a   Stock, Peter ^a   Ascher, Nancy L ^a   Emond, Jean C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD; CHOLESTASIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; INBORN ERROR OF METABOLISM; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0029745203     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.1996.01430200097017     Document Type: Conference Paper

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