Extrahepatic bile ducts
✍ Scribed by A. F. Schärli
- Book ID
- 112276764
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 1992
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 53 KB
- Volume
- 7
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0179-0358
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