Recipient outcomes of salvage liver transplantation versus primary liver transplantation: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1316-1323

  Hu, Zhenhua ^a,b   Wang, Wei ^a,b   Li, Zhiwei ^a,b   Ye, Sunyi ^a,b   Zheng, Shu Sen ^a,b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BILIARY TRACT DISEASE; BLEEDING; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT SALVAGE; HUMAN; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; META ANALYSIS; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SALVAGE LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; SEPSIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECURRENCE; RISK; SALVAGE THERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84868136450     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.23521     Document Type: Review

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