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How safe and useful are left-lobe grafts in living donor liver transplantation?

Nature Clinical Practice Gastroenterology & Hepatology volume 3, pages 486–487 (2006)Cite this article

boxed-textSoejima Y et al. (2006) Feasibility of left lobe living donor liver transplantation between adults: an 8-year, single-center experience of 107 cases. Am J Transplant 6: 1004–1011

With proper donor and recipient selection, adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation that uses the left lobe of the liver can provide equivalent results to transplantation that uses the right lobe

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Humar, A. How safe and useful are left-lobe grafts in living donor liver transplantation?. Nat Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol 3, 486–487 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncpgasthep0598

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