Report of a national conference on liver allocation in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma in the United States.

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Published in Liver Transpl on March 01, 2010

Authors

Elizabeth A Pomfret1, Kenneth Washburn, Christoph Wald, Michael A Nalesnik, David Douglas, Mark Russo, John Roberts, David J Reich, Myron E Schwartz, Luis Mieles, Fred T Lee, Sander Florman, Francis Yao, Ann Harper, Erick Edwards, Richard Freeman, John Lake

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Transplantation and Hepatobiliary Surgery, Lahey Clinic Medical Center, 41 Mall Road, 4 West, Burlington, MA 01805, USA. elizabeth.a.pomfret@lahey.org

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