A case of idiopathic hemochromatosis which occurred in three siblings with high level of serum CA19-9

Japanese Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 95, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 910-915

  Kawanaka, Miwa ^a   Kinoyama, Shingo ^a   Niiyama, Gouichi ^a   Kimura, Tetsuya ^a   Ifukube, Satoshi ^a   Onogi, Toshiya ^a   Miyake, Ichiro ^a   Tamura, Tomoyuki ^a   Mitani, Kenichiro ^a   Sugahara, Atsushi ^a   Goto, Kensuke ^a   Uchida, Junichi ^a   Ito, Toshio ^a   Yamada, Gotaro ^a   Moriya, Takuya ^a  

^a KAWASAKI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CA 19-9 ANTIGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HEMOCHROMATOSIS; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; MALE; PEDIGREE ANALYSIS; SIBLING;

CA-19-9 ANTIGEN; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; HEMOCHROMATOSIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0031657770     PISSN: 04466586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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