Assessment of liver function: What are we measuring?

HPB

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 325-326

  Van Gulik, Thomas M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN;

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHILD PUGH SCORE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; HEPATOBILIARY SCINTISCANNING; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; KUPFFER CELL; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LIVER INJURY; LIVER NECROSIS; LIVER PARENCHYMA; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MODEL FOR END STAGE LIVER DISEASE SCORE; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; POST HEPATECTOMY LIVER FAILURE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; SURGICAL MORTALITY;

EID: 84875981745     PISSN: 1365182X     EISSN: 14772574     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/hpb.12075     Document Type: Editorial

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