Surveillance for hepatocellular carcinoma in liver cirrhosis: have programmes improved because patients have?
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Surveillance of cirrhosis for hepatocellular carcinoma
1 Peninsula Technology Assessment Group (PenTAG), Peninsula Medical School, Exeter, UK 2 School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Plymouth, UK 3 Hepatology Research Group, Peninsula Medical School, Exeter, UK 4 Radiology Department, Plymouth NHS Hospitals Trust, UK 5 Queen’s Medical Centre, University of Nottingham, UK 6 Southampton Health Technology Assessments Group, University of ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Gut
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0017-5749
DOI: 10.1136/gut.51.3.456-a