Patient selection for liver transplant: 1-Year experience with 555 patients at a single center

Mayo Clinic Proceedings

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 165-168

  Aranda Michel, Jaime ^a   Dickson, Rolland C ^a   Bonatti, Hugo ^a,b   Crossfield, John R ^a   Keaveny, Andrew P ^a   Vasquez, Adriana R ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATIENT REFERRAL; PATIENT SELECTION; PSYCHOSOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM;

EID: 39749117593     PISSN: 00256196     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4065/83.2.165     Document Type: Article

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