Randomized studies are still necessary [1]

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1301-1302

  Lentschener, Claude ^a   Steib, Annick ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b HÔPITAL CIVIL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ASCITES; BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CENTRAL VENOUS PRESSURE; CLINICAL STUDY; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HUMAN; HYPOVOLEMIA; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LETTER; LIVER CANCER; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHODOLOGY; PHLEBOTOMY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ANIMALS; ETHICS, RESEARCH; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 33746882858     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.20893     Document Type: Letter

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