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Incorporation of a Survivable Liver Biopsy Procedure in Mice to Assess Non-alcoholic Steatohepatitis NASH Resolution
Published on: April 16, 2019
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Is liver biopsy still useful in the era of non-invasive tests?
Tae Seop Lim1,2, Ja Kyung Kim1,2
1Department of Internal Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
Clinical and Molecular Hepatology
|July 11, 2020
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