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Letter

Alcoholic fatty liver disease and alcoholic liver cirrhosis may be differentiated with mean platelet volume and platelet distribution width

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Pages 584-585 | Received 29 Apr 2010, Accepted 08 Jun 2010, Published online: 30 Jul 2010

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