Adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation: History, current practice, and implications for the future

Progress in Transplantation

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 36-44

  Curran, Claire ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA HOSPITALS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BILE LEAKAGE; BILOMA; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DECUBITUS; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DONOR SELECTION; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; UNITED STATES; WOUND INFECTION; ADULT; HISTORY; METHODOLOGY; TRANSPLANTATION;

ADULT; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 19844363217     PISSN: 15269248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/152692480501500107     Document Type: Review

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