Prevalence and incidence of cholecystolithiasis in cirrhosis and relation to the etiology of liver disease

Digestion

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 293-298

  Benvegnù, Luisa ^a   Noventa, Franco ^a   Chemello, Liliana ^a   Fattovich, Giovanna ^b   Alberti, Alfredo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cholecystolithiasis; Chronic hepatitis; Cirrhosis

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ARTICLE; CHOLELITHIASIS; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GALLSTONE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INCIDENCE; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR;

AGED; CHOLELITHIASIS; CHRONIC DISEASE; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGENS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0030960424     PISSN: 00122823     EISSN: 14219867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000201457     Document Type: Article

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