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Report of a national conference on liver allocation in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma in the United States †

  1. Elizabeth A. Pomfret1,‡,*,
  2. Kenneth Washburn3,
  3. Christoph Wald2,
  4. Michael A. Nalesnik4,
  5. David Douglas5,
  6. Mark Russo6,
  7. John Roberts7,
  8. David J. Reich8,
  9. Myron E. Schwartz9,
  10. Luis Mieles10,
  11. Fred T. Lee11,
  12. Sander Florman12,
  13. Francis Yao7,
  14. Ann Harper13,
  15. Erick Edwards13,
  16. Richard Freeman14,
  17. John Lake15

Article first published online: 31 DEC 2009

DOI: 10.1002/lt.21999

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Liver Transplantation

Liver Transplantation

Volume 16, Issue 3, pages 262–278, March 2010

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Pomfret, E. A., Washburn, K., Wald, C., Nalesnik, M. A., Douglas, D., Russo, M., Roberts, J., Reich, D. J., Schwartz, M. E., Mieles, L., Lee, F. T., Florman, S., Yao, F., Harper, A., Edwards, E., Freeman, R. and Lake, J. (2010), Report of a national conference on liver allocation in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma in the United States . Liver Transpl, 16: 262–278. doi: 10.1002/lt.21999

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  1. 1

    Department of Transplantation and Hepatobiliary Surgery, Burlington, MA

  2. 2

    Department of Radiology, Lahey Clinic Medical Center, Burlington, MA

  3. 3

    Department of Transplant Center, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX

  4. 4

    Division of Transplantation and Hepatic Pathology, Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA

  5. 5

    Division of Transplantation Medicine, Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Phoenix, AZ

  6. 6

    Division of Transplantation, Department of Medicine, Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, NC

  7. 7

    Division of Transplantation, Department of Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

  8. 8

    Division of Multiorgan Transplantation and Hepatobiliary Surgery, Department of Surgery, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA

  9. 9

    Department of Surgery, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY

  10. 10

    Division of Transplantation and Hepatobiliary Surgery, Department of Surgery, Memorial Hermann Hospital, Houston, TX

  11. 11

    Department of Radiology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

  12. 12

    Tulane Abdominal Transplant Institute, Tulane Medical Center, New Orleans, LA

  13. 13

    Research Department, United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA

  14. 14

    Division of Transplantation, Department of Surgery, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA

  15. 15

    Department of Medicine and Liver Transplantation Program, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN

  1. ‡

    Telephone: 781-744-2500; FAX: 781-744-5743

*Department of Transplantation and Hepatobiliary Surgery, Lahey Clinic Medical Center, 41 Mall Road, 4 West, Burlington, MA 01805

  1. †

    See Editorial on Page 249

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 5 MAR 2010
  2. Article first published online: 31 DEC 2009
  3. Accepted manuscript online: 31 DEC 2009 12:00AM EST
  4. Manuscript Accepted: 28 OCT 2009
  5. Manuscript Received: 6 JUL 2009

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