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Alcoholic liver disease

✍ Scribed by Robert S. O'Shea; Srinivasan Dasarathy; Arthur J. McCullough; Practice Guideline Committee of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases; the Practice Parameters Committee of the American College of Gastroenterology

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2009
Tongue: English
Weight: 333 KB
Volume: 51
Category: Article
ISSN: 0270-9139
DOI: 10.1002/hep.23258

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