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Experience of pediatric liver disease at a university hospital in Western Saudi Arabia

Nawal H. Almohammad and Rana Y. Bokhary
Saudi Medical Journal May 2025, 46 (5) 567-570; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2025.46.5.20240854
Nawal H. Almohammad
From the Department of Basic Medical Sciences (Almohammad), Faculty of Medicine, Taibah University, Al-Madinah Al-Munawwarah, and from the Department of Pathology (Bokhary), Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, King Abdulaziz University Hospital, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Rana Y. Bokhary
From the Department of Basic Medical Sciences (Almohammad), Faculty of Medicine, Taibah University, Al-Madinah Al-Munawwarah, and from the Department of Pathology (Bokhary), Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, King Abdulaziz University Hospital, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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