Complications of transplantation for protoporphyric liver disease
✍ Scribed by Guntram Lock; Axel Holstege; Jörgen Schölmerich; Peter Neuhaus
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1994
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 218 KB
- Volume
- 20
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0270-9139
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