"I'll never touch it again, doctor!" - Harmful drinking after liver transplantation

Hepatology

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1302-1304

  Haber, Paul S ^a   McCaughan, Geoffrey W ^a  

^a ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NOTE; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

EID: 36349022053     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.21931     Document Type: Note

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