Is left lobe adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation ready for widespread use? the US experience (1998-2010)

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Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 455-460

  Saidi, Reza F ^a   Jabbour, Nicolas ^a   Li, Youfu ^a   Shah, Shimul A ^a   Bozorgzadeh, Adel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

graft type; live donors; living donor liver transplantation; outcome; survival

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; END STAGE LIVER DISEASE; FEMALE; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HAZARD RATIO; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RETRANSPLANTATION; RISK;

EID: 84861796713     PISSN: 1365182X     EISSN: 14772574     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1477-2574.2012.00475.x     Document Type: Article

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