Adult liver transplant survey: policies towards eligibility criteria in Canada and the United States 2007.

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Published in Liver Int on November 01, 2008

Authors

Karen I Kroeker1, Vincent G Bain, Thomas Shaw-Stiffel, Tse-Ling Fong, Eric M Yoshida

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Cananda.

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