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Prevalence of depressive symptoms in patients being evaluated for liver transplantation
E R Norris1, G A Smallwood, K Connor
1Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA.
Transplantation Proceedings
|December 21, 2002
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