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A for-cause biopsy is performed to diagnose the cause of allograft dysfunction in kidney transplantation. We occasionally encounter ambiguous biopsy results in symptomatic kidney transplant recipients. Yet, th...
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Enteric drainage into the recipient duodenum in pancreas transplantation (PT) can identify the graft duodenum by endoscopy. This study aimed to identify the characteristic endoscopic findings associated with g...
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Correction to: Outcome
The Chapter in: D.-J. Han et al. (eds.), Pancreas Transplantation – the Asian Experience, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-4597-6_6
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From December 16, 1966, to December 31, 2019, more than 60,000 pancreas transplants have been reported to the IPTR, including 34,133 from the USA and 27,119 from outside the USA (Fig. 1) [1]. In Asian countrie...
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Photoluminescence and photocurrent characteristics of Eu2 + activated MAl2O4 (M = Ba, Ca, Sr) phosphors during and after Ultraviolet ray and visible light irradiation have been investigated. The photoluminescence...
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