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Adult liver transplantation: what non-specialists need to know

G M Hirschfield1, P Gibbs, W J H Griffiths

  • 1Liver Centre, Toronto Western Hospital/University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada M5T 2S8. gideon.hirschfield@uhn.on.ca

BMJ (Clinical Research Ed.)
|May 26, 2009
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