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Anesthetic Aspects of Living Donor Hepatectomy

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Weyker, P.D., Brentjens, T.E. (2018). Anesthetic Aspects of Living Donor Hepatectomy. In: Wagener, G. (eds) Liver Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64298-7_28

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