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Makoto Osawa1, Yutaka Ito, Toyohiro Hirai

  • 1Department of Respiratory Medicine, Graduate School of Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.

Liver Transplantation : Official Publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society
|March 31, 2007
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