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The difficulty in timing for liver transplantation in cirrhotic patients coinfected with HIV: In search for a prognosis score

✍ Scribed by Didier Samuel; Jean-Charles Duclos-Vallee

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2006
Tongue: English
Weight: 64 KB
Volume: 12
Category: Article
ISSN: 1527-6465
DOI: 10.1002/lt.20790

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