Caroli's disease and liver transplantation

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 2-3

  Habib, Shahid ^a   Shaikh, Obaid S ^b  

^a Center for Liver Diseases   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BILIRUBIN; URSODEOXYCHOLIC ACID;

AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE INHERITANCE; BILE DUCT DILATATION; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; CAROLI DISEASE; CHOLANGITIS; CHOLESTASIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDITORIAL; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; KIDNEY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER ABSCESS; LIVER DEVELOPMENT; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SURVIVAL RATE;

CAROLI DISEASE; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; SURVIVAL RATE; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 38649143690     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.21379     Document Type: Editorial

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