Portal gas in a patient with alcoholic liver cirrhosis
โ Scribed by Takako Watanabe; Hideaki Ishida; Tomoya Komatsuda; Kayoko Furukawa
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- Japanese
- Weight
- 275 KB
- Volume
- 35
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1346-4523
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