Dual grafts in adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation: A single center experience in Taiwan

Surgery

Volumn 145, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 212-218

  Yang, Chin Hsiang ^a   Chen, Chao Long ^a   Wang, Chih Chi ^a   Concejero, Allan M ^a   Wang, Shih Ho ^a   Liu, Yueh Wei ^a   Yong, Chee Chien ^a   Lin, Tsan Shiun ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL LIVER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER WEIGHT; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TAIWAN;

ADULT; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER CIRCULATION; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TAIWAN; TRANSPLANTS;

EID: 58349120838     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2008.09.008     Document Type: Article

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