Current System for Allocation of Deceased Donor Kidney Transplantation
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of the Korean Society for Transplantation
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1598-1711,2508-2604
DOI: 10.4285/jkstn.2017.31.3.143