Outcomes of Technical Variant Liver Transplantation versus Whole Liver Transplantation for Pediatric Patients: A Meta-Analysis.

To overcome the shortage of appropriate-sized whole liver grafts for children, technical variant liver transplantation has been practiced for decades. We perform a meta-analysis to compare the survival rates and incidence of surgical complications between pediatric whole liver transplantation and te...

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Main Authors: Hui Ye, Qiang Zhao, Yufang Wang, Dongping Wang, Zhouying Zheng, Paul Michael Schroder, Yao Lu, Yuan Kong, Wenhua Liang, Yushu Shang, Zhiyong Guo, Xiaoshun He
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4569420?pdf=render