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Should patients with end-stage alcoholic liver disease have a new liver?

✍ Scribed by Steven Schenker; Henry S. Perkins; Michael F. Sorrell

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1990
Tongue: English
Weight: 803 KB
Volume: 11
Category: Article
ISSN: 0270-9139
DOI: 10.1002/hep.1840110223

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