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Amino Acid Challenge in Patients with Cirrhosis and Control Subjects: Ammonia, Plasma Amino Acid and EEG Changes

✍ Scribed by Hanan Al Mardini; Andrew Douglass; Christopher Record

Publisher
Springer
Year
2006
Tongue
English
Weight
367 KB
Volume
21
Category
Article
ISSN
0885-7490

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