Indications and selection of patients for liver transplantation

Practical Gastroenterology and Hepatology: Liver and Biliary Disease

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 299-304

  Alqahtani, Saleh ^a   Watt, Kymberly D S ^b  

^a UMM AL QURA UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b William J von Liebig Transplant Center   (United States)

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