Live donor liver transplantation: Is this really the way liver transplantation should be developed in India?

National Medical Journal of India

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 61-63

  Silva, Michael ^a   Mirza, Darius F ^a  

^a QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DEATH; CADAVER DONOR; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEATH CERTIFICATE; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; INDIA; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER SIZE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

HUMANS; INDIA; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 2342633845     PISSN: 0970258X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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