Surgery
Volume 124, Issue 4 , Pages 604-611 , October 1998

Living unrelated renal donation: The University of Wisconsin experience

Presented at the Fifty-fifth Annual Meeting of the Central Surgical Association, Ann Arbor, Mich, March 5-7, 1998.

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☆ Reprint requests: Anthony M. D'Alessandro, MD, Department of Surgery, H4/766, University of Wisconsin Hospital, 600 Highland Ave, Madison, WI 53792-7375.

PII: S0039-6060(98)00317-1

doi: 10.1067/msy.1998.91482

Surgery
Volume 124, Issue 4 , Pages 604-611 , October 1998

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