Ethical issues in living donor liver transplantation

Current Gastroenterology Reports

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 26-30

  Russo, Mark W ^a   Brown Jr , Robert S ^a  

^a New York Presbyterian Hospital Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; LIVER CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT CARE; RECIPIENT; REVIEW; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SAFETY; ADULT; ETHICS; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0037945654     PISSN: 15228037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11894-003-0006-x     Document Type: Review

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