Liver Transplant Waiting Time Does Not Correlate With Waiting List Mortality: Implications for Liver Allocation Policy
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عنوان ژورنال: Liver Transplantation
سال: 2000
ISSN: 1527-6465
DOI: 10.1053/jlts.2000.9744