In living donor liver transplantation, the safety of the donor operation is the highest priority. The introduction of the right lobe graft was late because of concerns about donor safety. We investigated donor liver regeneration by the types of resected segments as well as recipients to assess that
Are we ready to match donor and recipient in liver transplantation?
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- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 66 KB
- Volume
- 12
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1527-6465
- DOI
- 10.1002/lt.20846
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