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Drivers of the cost of liver transplantation: Is it the donor, the recipient, or the center?

✍ Scribed by Robert S. Brown Jr

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2009
Tongue: English
Weight: 55 KB
Volume: 15
Category: Article
ISSN: 1527-6465
DOI: 10.1002/lt.21935

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