Hepatic gas gangrene following liver transplantation.

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Published in Liver Transpl on March 01, 2007

Authors

Johannes Hadem1, Volker Westerkamp, Christian Trautwein, Michael Winkler, Michael P Manns, Carsten Hafer

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endocrinology, Hannover Medical School, Germany. johadem@yahoo.com

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