The American experience with transplantation for acute liver failure

Seminars in Liver Disease

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 427-433

  McCashland, Timothy M ^a   Shaw Jr , Byers W ^b   Tape, Elizabeth ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

fulminant; hepatic failure; transplantation

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PROTOCOL; EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION; HUMAN; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; PATIENT REFERRAL; PATIENT SELECTION; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TREATMENT PLANNING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0030452209     PISSN: 02728087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-1007255     Document Type: Review

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