Quantitative liver test in living liver donors and their recipients

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 514-515

  Reichen, Jürg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GALACTOSE; LIDOCAINE; PHENAZONE;

CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; DRUG CLEARANCE; DRUG DISTRIBUTION; DRUG ELIMINATION; DRUG HALF LIFE; DRUG METABOLISM; EDITORIAL; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HUMAN; INDOCYANINE GREEN ANGIOGRAPHY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER CLEARANCE; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LIVER PERFUSION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; METABOLIC CAPACITY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; ADULT; LIVER RESECTION; NOTE; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; LIVER FUNCTION TESTS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33645554185     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.20694     Document Type: Editorial

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