Spontaneous meso-portal shunt following orthotopic liver transplantation in a child
✍ Scribed by Grégory Vannevel; Philippe Clapuyt; Raymond Reding; Renaud Menten
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 156 KB
- Volume
- 40
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0301-0449
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