Liver transplantation for fulminant hepatic failure: experience with more than 200 patients over a 17-year period.

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Published in Ann Surg on May 01, 2003

Authors

Douglas G Farmer1, Dean M Anselmo, R Mark Ghobrial, Hasan Yersiz, Suzanne V McDiarmid, Carlos Cao, Michael Weaver, Jesus Figueroa, Khurram Khan, Jorge Vargas, Sammy Saab, Steven Han, Francisco Durazo, Leonard Goldstein, Curtis Holt, Ronald W Busuttil

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA. dgfarmer@mednet.ucla.edu

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