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Impact of geographic disparity on liver allocation for hepatocellular cancer in the United States

โœ Scribed by Zakiyah Kadry; Eric W. Schaefer; Tadahiro Uemura; Ali Riaz Shah; Ian Schreibman; Thomas R. Riley III

Book ID
116652606
Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2012
Tongue
English
Weight
800 KB
Volume
56
Category
Article
ISSN
0168-8278

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