Operative morbidity of living liver donors in Japan

Lancet

Volumn 362, Issue 9385, 2003, Pages 687-690

  Umeshita, Koji ^a   Fujiwara, Kenji ^b   Kiyosawa, Kendo ^c   Makuuchi, Masatoshi ^d   Satomi, Susumu ^e   Sugimachi, Keizo ^f   Tanaka, Koichi ^g   Monden, Morito ^a,h  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SAITAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^f KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^h OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DATA BASE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; JAPAN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MEDICAL ETHICS; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; ORGAN DONOR; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0041327808     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(03)14230-4     Document Type: Article

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