Lessons from liver transplantation: Flip, flop, and why?

Gut

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 318-

  Adams, P C ^a  

^a LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRON; TRANSFERRIN RECEPTOR;

C282Y GENE; CASE REPORT; GENE; HEMOCHROMATOSIS; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; IRON METABOLISM; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY;

HEMOCHROMATOSIS; HETEROZYGOTE; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS I; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MUTATION;

EID: 0037370004     PISSN: 00175749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/gut.52.3.318     Document Type: Short Survey

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