Honoring the contract with our patients: Outcome after repeated re-transplantation of the liver

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Eguchi, Susumu ^a   Soyama, Akihiko ^a   Mergental, Hynek ^a   van den Berg, Aad P ^a   Scheenstra, Rene ^a   Porte, Robert J ^a   Slooff, Maarten J H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Liver; Multiple; Re transplantation; Repeated

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTRACT; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HUMAN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETRANSPLANTATION; SIMULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIOPERATIVE CARE; REOPERATION; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79953297487     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: 13990012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0012.2010.01389.x     Document Type: Article

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