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. 2018 Oct;12(4):109-112.
doi: 10.1002/cld.745. Epub 2018 Nov 6.

At diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma, African Americans with hepatitis C have better liver function than other patients

Adam C Winters  1 , Julie C Sung  1 , Brooke Wyatt  2 , Deeva Berera  1 , Thomas D Schiano  2 , Myron E Schwartz  3 , Ponni V Perumalswami  2 , Andrea D Branch  2
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At diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma, African Americans with hepatitis C have better liver function than other patients

Adam C Winters et al. Clin Liver Dis (Hoboken). 2018 Oct.
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