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Chapter 6 - Management of Acute Liver Failure

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 May 2017

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Elizabeth Wilson  and
Philip Docherty
Edited by
Daniele Bryden  and
Andrew Temple
Daniele Bryden
Affiliation:
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Andrew Temple
Affiliation:
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
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Case Studies in Adult Intensive Care Medicine , pp. 40 - 47
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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