Transjugular liver biopsy in the follow-up of liver transplant patients
โ Scribed by Gilles Mentha; Pierre-Alain Schneider; Jean-Jacques Widmann; Pierre Meyer; Claude Lecoultre; Olivier Huber; Adrien Rohner
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1988
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 148 KB
- Volume
- 1
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0934-0874
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