Evaluation of the donor liver for living donor liver transplantation

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 9, Issue 10 SUPPL. 2, 2003, Pages

  Brandhagen, David ^a   Fidler, Jeff ^a   Rosen, Charles ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; BIOCHEMISTRY; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FATTY LIVER; HEPATOBILIARY SYSTEM; HUMAN; LIVER ANGIOGRAPHY; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CIRCULATION; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PEROPERATIVE CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; REFERENCE VALUE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEROLOGY; STANDARD; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIRUS HEPATITIS; VOLUMETRY;

EID: 0142248148     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/jlts.2003.50222     Document Type: Review

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