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Innovative And Radical Liver Surgery—EX VIVO Resection—Performed By UC-San Diego Surgeon

Jan 06, 2012

A team led by Alan Hemming, MD, transplant surgeon at UC San Diego Health System, has successfully performed the west coast’s first ex-vivo liver resection, a radical procedure to completely remove and reconstruct a diseased liver and re-implant it without any tumors.  The UC-San Diego School of Medicine is a long-time client of The Coding Network. 

To see the complete press release, click on:

http://newswise.com/articles/radical-liver-surgery-west-coast-first

 

 

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