Live Donor Liver Transplantation: Is It Better Than Waiting?

Gastroenterology

Volumn 133, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 2040-2042

  Crippin, Jeffrey S ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DONOR SELECTION; EDITORIAL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; ORGAN DONOR; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; SURGICAL RISK; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 36549063048     PISSN: 00165085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.gastro.2007.10.033     Document Type: Editorial

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