Successful treatment of small-for-size syndrome in adult-to-adult living-related liver transplantation: single center series.

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Published in Clin Transplant on November 08, 2007

Authors

Salvatore Gruttadauria1, Lucio Mandala', Roberto Miraglia, Settimo Caruso, Marta Ida Minervini, Domenico Biondo, Riccardo Volpes, Giovanni Vizzini, J Wallis Marsh, Angelo Luca, Amadeo Marcos, Bruno Gridelli

Author Affiliations

1: Istituto Mediterraneo Trapianti e Terapie ad Alta Specializzazione, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in Italy, Palermo, Italy. sgruttadauria@ismett.edu

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