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Bacterial infection is independently associated with failure to control bleeding in cirrhotic patients with gastrointestinal hemorrhage

✍ Scribed by John Goulis; Anastasios Armonis; David Patch; Caroline Sabin; Lynda Greenslade; Andrew K. Burroughs

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1998
Tongue: English
Weight: 72 KB
Volume: 27
Category: Article
ISSN: 0270-9139
DOI: 10.1002/hep.510270504

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