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Liver transplantation for alcoholic liver disease: Past, present, and future

✍ Scribed by Michael R. Lucey

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2007
Tongue: English
Weight: 63 KB
Volume: 13
Category: Article
ISSN: 1527-6465
DOI: 10.1002/lt.21014

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