Increasing the recipient benefit/donor risk ratio by lowering the graft size requirement for living donor liver transplantation

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1078-1082

  Chan, See Ching ^a,b   Fan, Sheung Tat ^a,b   Chok, Kenneth S H ^a   Sharr, William W ^a   Dai, Wing Chiu ^a   Fung, James Y Y ^a   Chan, Kwok Yin ^c   Balsarkar, Dharmesh J ^d   Lo, Chung Mau ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c ROYAL SHREWSBURY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d BYL Nair Hospital   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER SIZE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; RISK REDUCTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84862501510     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.23433     Document Type: Article

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