Retransplantation for recurrent hepatitis C in the model for end-stage liver disease era: How should we or shoudn't we?

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1025-1027

  Ghobrial, R Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DONOR; EDITORIAL; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; RECURRENT DISEASE; REOPERATION; SCORING SYSTEM; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0142186206     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/jlts.2003.50215     Document Type: Article

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