## Small bowel transplantation Over 30 years ago Richard Lillehei and colleagues from Minneapolis carried out experiments demonstrating that, from a technical point of view, transplantation of the gut was feasible'. However, it rapidly became clear that compared with other forms of organ grafting
Small bowel transplantation
โ Scribed by Timothy J. Pritchard; Robert L. Kirkman
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1985
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 951 KB
- Volume
- 9
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0364-2313
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