Patient, center and geographic characteristics of nationally placed livers.

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Published in Am J Transplant on February 02, 2012

Authors

J C Lai1, J P Roberts, E Vittinghoff, N A Terrault, S Feng

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.

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