Survival among pediatric liver transplant recipients: Impact of segmental grafts

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1287-1293

  Abt, Peter L ^a   Rapaport Kelz, Rachel ^a   Desai, Niraj M ^b   Frank, Adam ^a   Sonnad, Seema ^a   Rand, Elizabeth ^c   Markmann, James F ^a,c   Shaked, Abraham ^a,c   Olthoff, Kim M ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ALLOGRAFT; ARTICLE; CADAVER DONOR; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; FEMALE; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; INFANT; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CADAVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; ODDS RATIO; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 6444230224     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.20270     Document Type: Article

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