¹Scientific Center of Surgery named after M.Topchubashov, Baku, Azerbaijan; ²Azerbaijan Medical University, Baku, Azerbaijan; ³V. K. Gusak State Institute of Emergency and Reconstructive Surgery of NAMS, the International Center of Biotechnology ”Biostem”, Donetsk, Ukraine
*Corresponding author: Rasim E. Jafarli, MD, PhD. Azerbaijan Medical University, Baku, Azerbaijan E-mail: dr-jafarli@mail.ru
Published: March 25, 2015. DOI: 10.21103/Article5(1)_CRep
This report presents a clinical case describing successful endovascular transplantation of autologous bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) into liver of a patient with liver cirrhosis.
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