Are primary biliary cirrhosis and autoimmune cholangitis reflective of the pendulum of a clock and therefore represent a ‘phase’ of the same disease?
✍ Scribed by Hiromi Ishibashi
- Book ID
- 108949711
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 43 KB
- Volume
- 16
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0815-9319
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