Overview of reduced-size liver transplantation.
Organ donor availability is the major limiting factor in pediatric liver transplantation, and many children succumb from their liver disease before a suitable donor can be found. In an attempt to overcome this shortage, reduced-size liver transplantation, split liver transplantation, and living-donor liver transplantation have been introduced.  The eventual role of these techniques will be determined by accumulated experience over the next several years.
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University of Chicago, Departments of Surgery and Pediatrics, IL.
Whitington
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Broelsch
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