Adult live donor liver transplantation: routine, commonplace, standard care for end stage liver disease (we hope)
Journal Title: Annals of Hepatology - Year 2010, Vol 9, Issue 1
Abstract
Authors and Affiliations
Eric Yoshida, Mazhar Haque, Charles Scudamore
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