Exclusions and Deaths on the Liver Transplant Waiting List

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 622-624

  Cadahia V ^a   Gonzalez Dieguez M L ^a   Alonso, P ^a   Garcia Bernardo C ^a   Miyar de Leon A ^a   Barneo, L ^a   Vazquez L ^a   Gonzalez Pinto I M ^a   Rodriguez M ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO CENTRAL DE ASTURIAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER SURGERY; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ADULT; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; DEATH; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; PROBABILITY; SPAIN; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 77949482395     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2010.02.009     Document Type: Article

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