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Quantitative liver tests in living liver donors and their recipients

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Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2006
Tongue
English
Weight
58 KB
Volume
12
Category
Article
ISSN
1527-6465

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✦ Synopsis

Two papers in the present issue explore the value of quantitative liver function tests in living donor transplantation either in both donors and recipients 1 or their recipients. 2 Before discussing the findings of these papers, some basic considerations are in order.

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