Pretransplantation disease severity and posttransplantation outcome

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 124-125

  Kim, W Ray ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; INTRAHEPATIC CHOLESTASIS; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT CODING; PATIENT SELECTION; POLICY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037322557     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/jlts.2003.50030     Document Type: Editorial

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