Outcome of liver transplantation in hereditary hemochromatosis
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Hereditary hemochromatosis.
Hereditary hemochromatosis is definitively diagnosed based on liver biopsy findings.
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of terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License which permits unrestricted noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium provided article is properly cited. a Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine David Geffen School of Medicine University of California, Los Angeles/CA USA. b Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Weill Cornell Medical Co...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Transplant International
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0934-0874,1432-2277
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-2277.2009.00863.x