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Solid Organ Transplantation: Past, Present, and Future Challenges

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Imaging in Transplantation

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The dream of curing illness and injury by transplanting tissues or entire organs is probably as old as the history of healing itself. Transplantation began indeed many centuries ago as a primitive practice and has since evolved into a modern medicine reality.

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  1. Department of Radiology, Medical University of Vienna, Wachringer Guertel 18-20, 1090, Vienna, Austria

    Christiane Kulinna-Cosentini MD

  2. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, 330 Brookline Avenue, Boston, MA 02215, USA

    Alexander A. Bankier MD (Director of Functional Respiratory Imaging)

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Kulinna-Cosentini, C., Bankier, A.A. (2008). Solid Organ Transplantation: Past, Present, and Future Challenges. In: Bankier, A.A. (eds) Imaging in Transplantation. Medical Radiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68218-9_1

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