Outcomes with split liver transplantation in 106 recipients: The University of California, San Francisco, experience from 1993 to 2010

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 146, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1052-1059

  Vagefi, Parsia A ^a   Parekh, Justin ^a   Ascher, Nancy L ^a   Roberts, John P ^a   Freise, Chris E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; INCISIONAL HERNIA; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLIT LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; END STAGE LIVER DISEASE; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SAN FRANCISCO; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 80053057631     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.2011.218     Document Type: Article

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