Small-for-size graft: Not defined solely by being small for size

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 815-817

  Kiuchi, Tetsuya ^a   Onishi, Yasuharu ^a   Nakamura, Taro ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY WEIGHT; EDITORIAL; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER WEIGHT; LIVING DONOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMALL FOR SIZE GRAFT; AGE; BODY SIZE; DONOR; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HISTOLOGY; LIVER; NOTE; ORGAN SIZE; TRANSPLANTATION;

AGE FACTORS; BODY SIZE; BODY WEIGHT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; ORGAN SIZE; TISSUE DONORS; TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 77954151269     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.22113     Document Type: Editorial

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