Lessons Learned from Liver Transplantation with the Canadian First Nations

Overview

Journal Can J Gastroenterol

Specialty Gastroenterology

Date 2011 Jul 19

PMID 21766088

Authors

Aldo J Montano-Loza

Robert P Myers

Andrew L Mason

Affiliations

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