Are we splitting hairs over split livers?

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1073-1076

  Feng, Sandy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADAVER DONOR; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EDITORIAL; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; ORGAN DONOR; PATIENT SELECTION; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CHILD; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; TRANSPLANTS;

EID: 49649099512     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.21531     Document Type: Editorial

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