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Gender and liver: Is the liver stiffness weaker in weaker sex?

✍ Scribed by C. Corpechot; A. El Naggar; R. Poupon

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2006
Tongue: English
Weight: 67 KB
Volume: 44
Category: Article
ISSN: 0270-9139
DOI: 10.1002/hep.21306

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