Will improved donor safety increase liver donations?

Transplantation

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 19-20

  Belghiti, Jacques ^a  

^a BEAUJON HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Donor complications; Donor morbidity; Living donor liver transplantation

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; HUMAN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; LUNG EMBOLISM; NOTE; ORGAN DONOR; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKILL; SURGEON; ASIAN; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; ETHNOLOGY; HOSPITALIZATION; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; LIVER RESECTION; MORTALITY; MOTIVATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; REOPERATION; TIME;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MOTIVATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 67651043159     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TP.0b013e3181a9ea53     Document Type: Note

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