Beyond the body surface area vauthey formula to identify the minimal donor volume for right-lobe living-donor liver transplantation

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 997-998

  Gruttadauria, Salvatore ^a   di Francesco, Fabrizio ^a   Marsh, James Wallis ^a   Marcos, Amadeo ^a   Gridelli, Bruno ^a  

^a MEDITERRANEAN INSTITUTE FOR TRANSPLANTATION AND ADVANCED SPECIALIZED THERAPIES ISMETT   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY SURFACE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; HEMIHEPATECTOMY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LENGTH OF STAY; LETTER; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER WEIGHT; LIVING DONOR; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; URATA FORMULA; VAUTHEY FORMULA; VOLUMETRY;

EID: 69949092751     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.21779     Document Type: Letter

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