Clinical significance of serum bilirubin levels under ursodeoxycholic acid therapy in patients with primary biliary cirrhosis
✍ Scribed by Anne-Marie Bonnand; E. Jenny Heathcote; Keith D. Lindor; Renée Eugénie Poupon
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 82 KB
- Volume
- 29
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0270-9139
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