The right small-for-size graft results in better outcomes than the left small-for-size graft in adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1722-1730

  Yi, Nam Joon ^a   Suh, Kyung Suk ^a   Cho, Yong Beom ^a   Lee, Hae Won ^a   Cho, Eung Ho ^a   Cho, Jai Young ^a   Shin, Woo Young ^a   Kim, Joohyun ^a   Lee, Kuhn Uk ^a  

^a Seoul National University Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASILIXIMAB; CALCINEURIN INHIBITOR; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; STEROID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASCITES; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GRAFT DYSFUNCTION; HUMAN; HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD PRESSURE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROTHROMBIN TIME;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; LIVER FUNCTION TESTS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK FACTORS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 48549107500     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-008-9641-6     Document Type: Article

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