Since the introduction of techniques to reliably identify antibody to the hepatitis C virus and quantitation of hepatitis C virus, there has been an increasing interest in the behavior of chronic hepatitis C infection with liver transplantation. Ninety-seven patients with chronic active hepatitis C
Liver transplantation for hepatitis C
โ Scribed by Marubashi, Shigeru ;Dono, Keizo ;Miyamoto, Atsushi ;Takeda, Yutaka ;Nagano, Hiroaki ;Umeshita, Koji ;Monden, Morito
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 199 KB
- Volume
- 13
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0944-1166
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