Preoperative donor liver biopsy for adult living donor liver transplantation: Risks and benefits

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 980-986

  Nadalin, Silvio ^a   Malagó, Massimo ^a   Valentin Gamazo, Camino ^a   Testa, Giuliano ^b   Baba, Hideo A ^a   Liu, Chao ^a   Frühauf, Nils R ^a   Schaffer, Randolph ^a   Gerken, Guido ^a   Frilling, Andrea ^a   Broelsch, Christoph E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; GRANULOMATOSIS; HEMATOMA; HEPATITIS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SCREENING;

ADULT; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 23744508743     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.20462     Document Type: Article

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