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Liver Transplantation for Acute Liver Failure: Trying to Define When Transplantation Is Futile

✍ Scribed by L.F. Pacheco-Moreira; E. Balbi; M. Enne; J. Roma; K. Paulino dos Santos; T.B. Annunziata; R.M. Perez; H. Sérgio de Moraes Coelho; J.M. Martinho


Book ID
116933612
Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2007
Tongue
English
Weight
139 KB
Volume
39
Category
Article
ISSN
0041-1345

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