Graft positioning at liver transplantation in situs inversus
โ Scribed by Olga Tucker; Andreas Prachalias; Pauline Kane; Mohamed Rela
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 412 KB
- Volume
- 12
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1527-6465
- DOI
- 10.1002/lt.20952
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