Bridging to transplantation in acute liver failure in a 7-month-old infant
✍ Scribed by Gerhard Trittenwein; Harald Boigner; Gehan Mostafa; Gudrun Burda; Adolf Mühl; Gabriele Amann; Arnold Pollak
- Publisher
- Springer Vienna
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 111 KB
- Volume
- 118
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0043-5325
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