Efforts to expand the donor pool for liver transplantation

F1000 Medicine Reports

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Sutaria, Rupesh ^a,b   Adams, David H ^a,b  

^a University of Birmingham   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DONOR SELECTION; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; ORGAN DONOR; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

EID: 77955074546     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17575931     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3410/M2-42     Document Type: Review

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