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Noninvasive diagnosis of cirrhosis in chronic hepatitis C based on standard laboratory tests

✍ Scribed by Carolin Lackner; Gerd Struber; Csilla Bankuti; Bernd Bauer; Rudolf E. Stauber

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2006
Tongue: English
Weight: 60 KB
Volume: 43
Category: Article
ISSN: 0270-9139
DOI: 10.1002/hep.21037

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