Viral Hepatitis and Its Complications: Management of Hepatocellular Carcinoma
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a Department of General and Visceral Surgery, Frankfurt University Hospital and Clinics, Frankfurt/M., Germany; b Department of Medicine I, University Medical Center Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany; c Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery and Transplantation, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany; d Department of Visceral, Abdominal and Transplantation Surgery, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany; e Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany; f Institute for Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Frankfurt University Hospital and Clinics, Frankfurt/M., Germany
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