Split-liver transplant for two adults in a Spanish Hospital [7]

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 52, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 3240-3241

  Rios A ^a,b   Ramirez P ^a   Robles, R ^a   Bueno, F Sánchez ^a   Parrilla, P ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DE LA ARRIXACA   (Spain)

^b NONE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STEROID;

ANASTOMOSIS; BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; BODY MASS; DONOR SELECTION; HEMODYNAMICS; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; JAUNDICE; LETTER; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER SURGERY; ORGAN DONOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; COMMON BILE DUCT; FEMALE; HEPATIC DUCT, COMMON; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SPAIN;

EID: 34848831519     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10620-006-9647-6     Document Type: Letter

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