Higher than average success rate for children receiving living donor transplants
Friday, July 18, 2008 - 07:49
in Health & Medicine
Ninety-six per cent of children who have received liver transplants from living relations are still alive five years after surgery, according to research published in the July issue of the British Journal of Surgery...
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