Use of severely steatotic grafts in liver transplantation

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 248, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 142-143

  Verran, Deborah ^a   Dilworth, Pamela ^a   Tang, Patrick ^a   McCaughan, Geoffrey ^a  

^a ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FATTY LIVER; HUMAN; LETTER; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; ORGAN DONOR; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL; ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; DONOR; MORTALITY; NOTE; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT SELECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

FATTY LIVER; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; PATIENT SELECTION; TISSUE DONORS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 48949118932     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e31817cfd2b     Document Type: Letter

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