Living donor transplantation between twins: Guidance for Donor Advocate Teams

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 144-147

  Bramstedt, Katrina A ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment; Coercion; Ethics; Living donor; Organ transplantation; Twins

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CADAVER DONOR; CASE REPORT; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; DONOR SELECTION; HUMAN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; ORGAN DONOR; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PATIENT GUIDANCE; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIMARY SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CHOLANGITIS, SCLEROSING; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SAFETY; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 33846709326     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: 13990012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0012.2006.00617.x     Document Type: Article

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