The "white clot syndrome" in hepatic transplantation

Transplantation

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 982-984

  Broughan, Thomas A ^a   Kottke Marchant, Kandice ^b   Vogt, David P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THROMBOSIS; TISSUE SECTION; URINE VOLUME;

HEPARIN; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 0029967762     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199603270-00027     Document Type: Article

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