Is liver biopsy essential to identifying the immune tolerant phase of chronic hepatitis B?

Clin Mol Hepatol

Department of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.

Published: April 2023

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