Causes of late mortality in pediatric liver transplant recipients

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 227, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 289-295

  Sudan, Debra L ^a   Shaw Jr , Byers W ^a   Langnas, Alan N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; GRAFT FAILURE; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INCIDENCE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL;

ADOLESCENT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; INFANT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0031887626     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000658-199802000-00020     Document Type: Article

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