Comment to " Liver transplantation for patients with alcoholic liver disease: An open question"

Digestive and Liver Disease

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 80-81

  Testino, Gianni ^a   Sumberaz, Alessandro ^a   Borro, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; PARACETAMOL; STEROID;

ACUTE LIVER FAILURE; ALCOHOL ABSTINENCE; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOL LIVER DISEASE; DRUG OVERDOSE; HUMAN; LETTER; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF HELP; STEROID THERAPY; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME;

ALCOHOLISM; HUMANS; LIVER DISEASES, ALCOHOLIC; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 84871612403     PISSN: 15908658     EISSN: 18783562     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dld.2012.06.003     Document Type: Letter

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