Long term follow up chronic hepatitis B patients treated with interferon
β Scribed by Hulya Cetinkaya; Ozden Uzunalimoglu; Mustafa Sarioglu; Hakan Bozkaya; Mithat Bozdayi; Selim Karayalcin; Cihan Yurdaydin
- Book ID
- 118565782
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 111 KB
- Volume
- 36
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0168-8278
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