Living donor liver transplantation for children with liver failure and concurrent multiple organ system failure

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 890-895

  Mack, Cara L ^a,b   Ferrario, Mario ^a,b   Abecassis, Michael ^a,b   Whitington, Peter F ^a,b   Superina, Riccardo A ^a,b   Alonso, Estella M ^a,b  

^a CHILDREN'S MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; CADAVER DONOR; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; HUMAN; INFANT; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER ISCHEMIA; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MEDICAL RECORD; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME;

EID: 0034756717     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/jlts.2001.27963     Document Type: Article

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