Overcoming the limitations of living donor and split liver transplantation: A proposal for adult recipients (the best of the east in the west)

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 932-934

  Heaton, Nigel ^a   Srinivasan, Parthi ^a   Prachalias, Andreas ^a   Rela, Mohamed ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CADAVER DONOR; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; ORGAN DONOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; RISK REDUCTION; SPLIT LIVER TRANSPLANATATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT PLANNING; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; CHILD; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; TRANSPLANTS;

EID: 48949120275     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.21512     Document Type: Article

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