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Split liver transplantation: Will it ever yield grafts for two adults?

✍ Scribed by Cristiano Quintini; Federico Aucejo; Charles M. Miller

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2008
Tongue: English
Weight: 68 KB
Volume: 14
Category: Article
ISSN: 1527-6465
DOI: 10.1002/lt.21564

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