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Two general kinds of liver transplantation have been attempted clinically. With one approach, the host liver is removed and replaced with a homograft (orthotopic liver transplantation); alternatively, an extra liver is inserted at an ectopic site (auxiliary homotransplantation). This review concerns only orthotopic liver transplantation.
Starzl et al. (Wed,) studied this question.