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alcoholic cirrhosis...lab test s/l serum fraction??

Posted By: mt on 2007-12-30
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Subject: alcoholic cirrhosis...lab test s/l serum fraction??

Any ideas would be very helpful.  Exact context....For the patient's alcoholic cirrhosis **serum fraction** was 32.  No steroids were given. 


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