Are HIV-infected patients candidates for liver transplantation?
✍ Scribed by Didier Samuel; Rainer Weber; Peter Stock; Jean-Charles Duclos-Vallée; Norah Terrault
- Book ID
- 116651569
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 165 KB
- Volume
- 48
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0168-8278
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