How valid is emergency liver transplantation for acute liver necrosis in patients with multiple-organ failure?

Liver Transplantation and Surgery

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-7

  Pitre, J ^a   Soubrane, O ^a   Dousset, B ^a   Ozier, Y ^a   Baudin, F ^a   Devictor, D ^a   Bernard, O ^a   Houssin, D ^a   Chapuis, Y ^a  

^a Hopital Cochin ^*  (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LIVER NECROSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030070737     PISSN: 10743022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.500020102     Document Type: Article

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