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Elnaggar, A.S., Guarrera, J.V. (2018). The Marginal Liver Donor and Organ Preservation Strategies. In: Wagener, G. (eds) Liver Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64298-7_17

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