Surgical considerations in liver transplantation: Small for size syndrome

Panminerva Medica

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 227-233

  Selvaggi, G ^a   Tzakis, A ^a  

^a Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

Liver transplantation; Living donor; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DONOR; HISTOLOGY; HISTORY; HUMAN; LIVER; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SUPPLY AND DISTRIBUTION; SURGERY;

HEPATECTOMY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; ORGAN SIZE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TISSUE DONORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77952363122     PISSN: 00310808     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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