Enabling altruism: Evaluating the adult living liver donor

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 478-479

  Fisher, Robert A ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALTRUISM; BLOOD GROUP ABO SYSTEM; BODY MASS; CADAVER DONOR; CHINESE; COHORT ANALYSIS; EDITORIAL; GRAFT FAILURE; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; SCORING SYSTEM; STEATOSIS;

ALTRUISM; BIOPSY; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING;

EID: 34247182597     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.21012     Document Type: Editorial

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