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Pretransplant MELD score and post liver transplantation survival in the UK and Ireland

✍ Scribed by Mathew Jacob; Lynn P. Copley; James D. Lewsey; Alex Gimson; Giles J. Toogood; Mohamed Rela; Jan H. P. van der Meulen

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2004
Tongue: English
Weight: 80 KB
Volume: 10
Category: Article
ISSN: 1527-6465
DOI: 10.1002/lt.20169

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