Transplantation for alcoholic liver disease: Lessons from the explant?

Gut

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 462-463

  Bathgate, A ^a   Hayes, P ^a  

^a ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; ALCOHOL LIVER DISEASE; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; EXPLANT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEPATITIS C; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037379504     PISSN: 00175749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/gut.52.4.462     Document Type: Review

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