An Increase in Deceased Donor Incidence Alleviated the Need for Urgent Adult Living Donor Liver Transplantation in a Korean High-Volume Center

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1497-1501

  Hwang, S ^a   Lee, S G ^a   Ahn, C S ^a   Kim, K H ^a   Moon, D B ^a   Ha, T Y ^a   Song, G W ^a   Jung, D H ^a   Kim, K W ^a   Choi, N K ^a   Park, G C ^a   Yu, Y D ^a   Choi, Y I ^a   Park, P J ^a  

^a University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADULT LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; AGED; ARTICLE; CADAVER DONOR; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; KOREA; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; LIVING DONOR LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; ORGAN DONOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CADAVER; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; KOREA; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TISSUE DONORS; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 77953678743     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2009.12.059     Document Type: Article

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