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Emergency liver transplantation for hereditary lysozyme amyloidosis

✍ Scribed by George FG Mells; John AC Buckels; Douglas Thorburn

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2006
Tongue: English
Weight: 42 KB
Volume: 12
Category: Article
ISSN: 1527-6465
DOI: 10.1002/lt.20984

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