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The model for end-stage liver disease score is useful for predicting economic outcomes in adult cases of living donor liver transplantation

✍ Scribed by Takayuki Kogure; Yoshiyuki Ueno; Naoki Kawagishi; Noriatsu Kanno; Yoko Yamagiwa; Koji Fukushima; Susumu Satomi; Tooru Shimosegawa

Publisher: Springer Japan
Year: 2006
Tongue: English
Weight: 175 KB
Volume: 41
Category: Article
ISSN: 0944-1174
DOI: 10.1007/s00535-006-1887-x

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