Cognitive dysfunction in liver cirrhosis: does hepatitis C virus play a role?
✍ Scribed by Evangelos Kalaitzakis; Einar Björnsson
- Book ID
- 106180265
- Publisher
- Springer Japan
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 99 KB
- Volume
- 43
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0944-1174
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