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Letter

Successful treatment of severe refractory hepatic graft-versus-host disease by cadaveric liver transplant

Amer M. ZeidanDepartment of Oncology, the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
,
Jocelyn L. WozneyDepartment of Oncology, the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
,
Michael TorbensonDepartment of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
,
Karen KrokDepartment of Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
&
Javier Bolaños-MeadeDepartment of Oncology, the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USACorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 2756-2759 | Received 20 Feb 2013, Accepted 18 Mar 2013, Published online: 30 Apr 2013

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