Living donor liver transplantation: an 8-year experience with 379 consecutive cases
β Scribed by Y Inomata; K Tanaka; S Uemoto; K Asonuma; H Egawa; T Kiuchi; S Fujita; M Hayashi
- Book ID
- 117237487
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 45 KB
- Volume
- 31
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0041-1345
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