Comparison of the clinical features and clinical course of antimitochondrial antibody-positive and -negative primary biliary cirrhosis

Hepatology

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1090-1095

  Invernizzi, Pietro ^a   Crosignani, Andrea ^a   Battezzati, Pier Maria ^a   Covini, Giovanni ^b   De Valle, Guya ^a   Larchi, Alberto ^a   Zuin, Massimo ^a   Podda, Mauro ^a,c  

^a San Paolo School of Medicine   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c Division of Internal Medicine   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY; MITOCHONDRION ANTIBODY; SMOOTH MUSCLE ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERODIAGNOSIS;

EID: 0030948796     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.510250507     Document Type: Article

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