Analysis of long-term outcomes of 3200 liver transplantations over two decades: a single-center experience.

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Published in Ann Surg on June 01, 2005

Authors

Ronald W Busuttil1, Douglas G Farmer, Hasan Yersiz, Jonathan R Hiatt, Sue V McDiarmid, Leonard I Goldstein, Sammy Saab, Steven Han, Francisco Durazo, Michael Weaver, Carlos Cao, Tony Chen, Gerald S Lipshutz, Curtis Holt, Sherilyn Gordon, Jeffery Gornbein, Farin Amersi, Rafik M Ghobrial

Author Affiliations

1: Dumont-UCLA Liver Transplant Center, Department of Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA. rghobria@mednet.ucla.edu

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