Is MELD really the definitive score for liver allocation?

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 795-798

  Lladó, Laura ^a   Figueras, Juan ^a   Memba, Roberto ^a   Xiol, Xavier ^a   Baliellas, Carmen ^a   Vázquez, Santiago ^a   Ramos, Emilio ^a   Torras, Jaume ^a   Rafecas, Antoni ^a   Fabregat, Juan ^a   Lama, Carmen ^a   Jaurrieta, Eduardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC DISORDER; MORTALITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RATING SCALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0036712049     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/jlts.2002.34637     Document Type: Article

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