Hemodynamic assessment of pharmacological response in the treatment of portal hypertension: a need to know
✍ Scribed by Norman D Grace
- Book ID
- 119389037
- Publisher
- Nature Publishing Group
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 36 KB
- Volume
- 95
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0002-9270
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