Potential candidates for small bowel transplantation
โ Scribed by C. L. Ingham Clark; P. A. Lear; S. Wood; J. E. Lennard-Jones; R. F. M. Wood
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1992
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 489 KB
- Volume
- 79
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0007-1323
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