Model for end-stage liver disease (MELD) score and cost-effectiveness on living donor liver transplantation
โ Scribed by Takafumi Ichida; Yutaka Narita; Romi Murakami
- Publisher
- Springer Japan
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 102 KB
- Volume
- 41
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0944-1174
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