Value of the MELD score for the assessment of pre- and post-liver transplantation survival

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 2863-2864

  Adler, M ^a   De Gendt, E ^a   Vereerstraeten, P ^a   Degre D ^a   Bourgeois, N ^a   Boon, N ^a   Gelin, M ^a   Ickx, B ^a   Donckier, V ^a  

^a ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHILD PUGH SCORE; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; EUROPE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MODEL OF END STAGE LIVER DISEASE SCORE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; UNITED STATES; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 25144517327     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2005.05.007     Document Type: Article

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