Cardiac injury in the context of metastatic hepatocellular carcinoma
✍ Scribed by Catarina Ferreira; Presa Ramos; Ana Baptista; Hélder Ribeiro; Pedro Mateus; Ilídio Moreira
- Book ID
- 119649275
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Year
- 2011
- Weight
- 129 KB
- Volume
- 30
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 2174-2049
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