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Metastatic breast cancer presenting as acute liver failure
Hector E Nazario1, Rita Lepe, James F Trotter
1Division of Transplant Hepatology Department of Medicine Baylor University Medical Center Dallas, Texas, USA. Hector.Nazario@BaylorHealth.edu
Gastroenterology & Hepatology
|February 25, 2011
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