Incidence and treatment of rejection episodes in primary orthotopic liver transplantation under FK 506.

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Published in Transplant Proc on February 01, 1991

Authors

A B Jain1, J J Fung, S Todo, M Alessiani, S Takaya, K Abu-Elmagd, A Tzakis, T E Starzl

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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