Living donor liver transplantation and hepatitis C: Lessons from the learning curve?
✍ Scribed by Jose A. Carrión; Xavier Forns
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 60 KB
- Volume
- 13
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1527-6465
- DOI
- 10.1002/lt.20914
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