Difference in Budd-Chiari syndrome between the West and China
Xingshun Qi1,2, Xiaozhong Guo1, Daiming Fan2
1Department of Gastroenterology, General Hospital of Shenyang Military Area, Shenyang, China.
Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.)
|December 6, 2014
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