We thank Tamura et al. 1 for their thought-provoking letter indicating that there are indeed still a lot of questions to be answered about the recurrence of primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC). They suggested that a comparison of risk factors and rates of recurrence in living and deceased donor gra
The urgent need for evaluating recurrent primary sclerosing cholangitis in living donor liver transplantation
β Scribed by Sumihito Tamura; Yasuhiko Sugawara; Noriyo Yamashiki; Junichi Kaneko; Norihiro Kokudo
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 45 KB
- Volume
- 15
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1527-6465
- DOI
- 10.1002/lt.21794
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