Surgery
Volume 147, Issue 1 , Pages 30-39 , January 2010

Evaluation of donor vasculobiliary anatomic variations in liver graft procurements

,Accepted 1 June 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2009.06.017

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