Reducing the incidence of incisional hernia after liver transplantation
✍ Scribed by Mikel Gastaca; Andrés Valdivieso; Patricia Ruiz; Jorge Ortiz De Urbina
- Book ID
- 110917336
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 131 KB
- Volume
- 23
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0934-0874
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