Survival Tree and Meld to Predict Long Term Survival in Liver Transplantation Waiting List
✍ Scribed by Emília Matos do Nascimento; Basilio de Bragança Pereira; Samanta Teixeira Basto; Joaquim Ribeiro Filho
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 141 KB
- Volume
- 36
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0148-5598
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