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Liver transplantation and osteoporosis: Securing “bone-fied” success

✍ Scribed by Wolfram Karges; Christian Trautwein

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2006
Tongue
English
Weight
96 KB
Volume
12
Category
Article
ISSN
1527-6465

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