Financial and insurance considerations for living donors

Living Donor Kidney Transplantation: Current Practices, Emerging Trends and Evolving Challenges

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 165-170

  Steiger, Jürg ^a   McCune, Thomas R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b EASTERN VIRGINIA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

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