Safety of small-for-size grafts in adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation using the right lobe

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 864-869

  Moon, Ju Ik ^a   Kwon, Choon Hyuck David ^a   Joh, Jae Won ^a   Jung, Gum O ^a   Choi, Gyu Seong ^a   Park, Jae Berm ^a   Kim, Jong Man ^a   Shin, Milljae ^a   Kim, Sung Joo ^a   Lee, Suk Koo ^a  

^a Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAFT DYSFUNCTION; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; GROUPS BY AGE; HEPATIC VEIN; HUMAN; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT LOBE GRAFT; RISK FACTOR; SMALL FOR SIZE GRAFT; AGE; BODY SIZE; BODY WEIGHT; DONOR; HISTOLOGY; LIVER; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ORGAN SIZE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRANSPLANTATION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BODY SIZE; BODY WEIGHT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ORGAN SIZE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TISSUE DONORS; TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 77954155094     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.22094     Document Type: Article

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