A pilot project examining the predicted preferences of patients and physicians in the primary prophylaxis of variceal hemorrhage.

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Published in Hepatology on January 01, 2008

Authors

Anna V Longacre1, Avlin Imaeda, Guadalupe Garcia-Tsao, Liana Fraenkel

Author Affiliations

1: Section of Digestive Disease, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.

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