Improving the approach to organ donation: a review.

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Published in World J Surg on July 01, 1999

Authors

D H Jenkins1, P M Reilly, C W Schwab

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Surgery, Division of Traumatology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 2 Dulles, 3400 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA.

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