Live donor liver transplantation: Current status

Current Gastroenterology Reports

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 36-42

  Olsen, Sonja K ^a   Brown, Robert S ^a  

^a Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BILIARY TRACT DISEASE; DISEASE COURSE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEPATITIS C; HERNIA; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MEDICAL ETHICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECIPIENT; SAFETY; SATISFACTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; WOUND INFECTION; LIVER TUMOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 51549102081     PISSN: 15228037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11894-008-0007-x     Document Type: Article

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