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Is liver transplantation an appropriate treatment for acute alcoholic hepatitis?

✍ Scribed by Michael R. Lucey

Book ID
118564657
Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2002
Tongue
English
Weight
61 KB
Volume
36
Category
Article
ISSN
0168-8278

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