Limitations of the MELD score in predicting mortality or need for removal from waiting list in patients awaiting liver transplantation
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- 25 September 2009
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in BMC Gastroenterology
- Vol. 9 (1), 72
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-230X-9-72
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