Living organ donation: Always ethically complex

Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 203-204

  Spital, Aaron ^a,c   Taylor, James Stacey ^b  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b The College of New Jersey   (United States)

^c ELMHURST HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHICS; HUMAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; NOTE; TRANSPLANTATION;

HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT;

EID: 34548849508     PISSN: 15559041     EISSN: 1555905X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2215/CJN.04011206     Document Type: Editorial

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