Transplantation Proceedings
Volume 41, Issue 9 , Pages 3556-3559 , November 2009

Body Mass Index Evaluating Donor Hepatic Steatosis in Living Donor Liver Transplantation

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 Cijun Peng and Ding Yuan contributed equally to this work.

PII: S0041-1345(09)01440-7

doi: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2009.06.235

Transplantation Proceedings
Volume 41, Issue 9 , Pages 3556-3559 , November 2009

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