Comparative histologic features of liver biopsy specimens from patients coinfected with hepatitis G and C viruses with chronic hepatitis C virus alone: An age-, sex-, disease duration-, and transmission-matched controlled study of chronic hepatitis

American Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 108, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 625-632

  Goldstein, Neal S ^a   Underhill, Jeanette ^a   Gordon, Stuart C ^a   Bayati, Nasser ^a   Silverman, Ann ^a  

^a WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic hepatitis; Hepatitis C virus; Hepatitis G virus; Liver

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HEPATITIS G VIRUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER BIOPSY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM;

EID: 0030667184     PISSN: 00029173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ajcp/108.6.625     Document Type: Article

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