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Short series regarding uncontrolled donor after cardiac death: A call for caution
Iago Justo1, Anisa Nutu1, María García-Conde1
1Unit of HPB Surgery and Abdominal Organ Transplantation, Department of Surgery, "Doce de Octubre" Hospital, Instituto de Investigación (imas12), Faculty of Medicine, Complutense University, Madrid, Spain.
Clinical Transplantation
|October 12, 2021
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The authors did not receive any funding for this work.
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