A Clinical perspective on the criteria for liver resection and the use of liver function tests

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 868-869

  Heger, Michal ^a   De Graaf, Wilmar ^a   Bennink, Roelof J ^a   Beuers, Ulrich ^a   Van Gulik, Thomas M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MULTICENTER STUDY; NOTE; STATISTICS;

HEPATECTOMY; LIVER FUNCTION TESTS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS;

EID: 77952419606     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-009-0327-5     Document Type: Letter

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