Estimation of liver size for liver transplantation: The impact of age and gender

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 678-685

  Choukèr, Alexander ^a   Martignoni, André ^a   Dugas, Martin ^a   Eisenmenger, Wolfgang ^a   Schauer, Rolf ^b   Kaufmann, Ines ^a   Schelling, Gustav ^a   Löhe, Florian ^b   Jauch, Karl Walter ^b   Peter, Klaus ^a   Thiel, Manfred ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY SURFACE; BODY WEIGHT; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LIVER SIZE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; ORGAN DONOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LIVER; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 2442425470     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.20113     Document Type: Article

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