Reversing Advanced Hepatic Fibrosis in NASH: Clearly Possible, but Widely at Hand?
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عنوان ژورنال: Digestive Diseases and Sciences
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0163-2116,1573-2568
DOI: 10.1007/s10620-015-3540-0