Living donor liver transplantation: Present status and recent advances

British Medical Bulletin

Volumn 75-76, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 15-28

  Sugawara, Yasuhiko ^a   Makuuchi, Masatoshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hepatitis C virus; Hepatocellular carcinoma; Live donor

Indexed keywords

ALPHA2B INTERFERON; DOXORUBICIN; PEGINTERFERON ALPHA2B; RIBAVIRIN;

CANCER RECURRENCE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; INCISIONAL HERNIA; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER REGENERATION; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MEDICAL ETHICS; MORBIDITY; ORGAN DONOR; PATIENT SELECTION; PNEUMONIA; PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; WOUND INFECTION;

CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; ETHICS, MEDICAL; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING;

EID: 33750920867     PISSN: 00071420     EISSN: 14718391     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bmb/ldh058     Document Type: Review

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