Successful orthotopic liver transplantation in two patients with liver failure due to sclerosing cholangitis with langerhans cell histiocytosis

Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1992, Pages 202-207

  Rand, Elizabeth B ^a   Whitington, P F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN; OKT 3; PREDNISONE;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; ENZYME BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HISTIOCYTOSIS X; HUMAN; LIVER ANGIOGRAPHY; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS; SKIN BIOPSY;

CASE REPORT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHOLANGITIS, SCLEROSING; FEMALE; HISTIOCYTOSIS, LANGERHANS-CELL; HUMAN; INFANT; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, BILIARY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0026709006     PISSN: 02772116     EISSN: 15364801     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005176-199208000-00019     Document Type: Article

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