Ethical considerations and rationale of adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 921-927

  Malagó, Massimo ^a,b,c,d,e   Testa, Giuliano ^a,b,c,d,e   Marcos, Amadeo ^a,b,c,d,e   Fung, John J ^a,b,c,d,e   Siegler, Mark ^a,b,c,d,e   Cronin, David C ^a,b,c,d,e   Broelsch, Christoph E ^a,b,c,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CADAVER DONOR; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUROPE; HEMIHEPATECTOMY; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; POLICY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034754770     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/jlts.2001.28301     Document Type: Article

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