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Clinical improvement and amyloid regression after liver transplantation in hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis

✍ Scribed by G Holmgren; L Steen; O Suhr; B.-G Ericzon; C.-G Groth; O Andersen; B.G Wallin; A Seymour; S Richardson; P.N Hawkins; M.B Pepys

Book ID: 119067343
Publisher: The Lancet
Year: 1993
Tongue: English
Weight: 584 KB
Volume: 341
Category: Article
ISSN: 0140-6736
DOI: 10.1016/0140-6736(93)93127-m

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