A worldwide database for living donor liver transplantation is long overdue

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1443-1444

  Mulligan, David C ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; DATA BASE; DEATH; EDITORIAL; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INTERNET; LAW SUIT; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDLINE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTRATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THROMBOSIS;

DATABASES; DATABASES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS;

EID: 33750095702     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.20925     Document Type: Editorial

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