Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Volume 82, Issue 1 , Pages 73-79 , January 2001

Preoperative expectations and postoperative quality of life in liver transplant survivors

,Accepted 15 May 2000.

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☆ No commercial party having a direct financial interest in the results of the research supporting this article has or will confer a benefit upon the authors or upon any organization with which the authors are associated.

☆☆ Reprint requests to Bernhard Holzner, PhD, Innsbruck University Hospital, Dept of Biological Psychiatry, Anichstr 35, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria, e-mail: Bernhard.Holzner@uibk.ac.at.

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doi: 10.1053/apmr.2001.19013

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
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