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Technique of Porcine Liver Procurement and Orthotopic Transplantation using an Active Porto-Caval Shunt
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Status of congenital extrahepatic portosystemic shunt
Pan Zeng1, Zhenfan Qu, Heng Sun
1Pediatric Surgery, Graduate Training Base of Jinzhou Medical University, Affiliated Hospital of Hubei Medical College, Taihe Hospital, Shiyan, Hubei 442000, China.
Chinese Medical Journal
|August 9, 2022
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