Liver Transplantation in Brazil

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 1254-1258

  Bittencourt, Paulo Lisboa ^a   Farias, Alberto Queiroz ^b   Couto, Claudia Alves ^c  

^a Portuguese Hospital of Salvador   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CADAVER DONOR; DECEASED DONOR LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; LIVING DONOR LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; MODEL FOR END STAGE LIVER DISEASE SCORE; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 84983523310     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.24487     Document Type: Article

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