Different pathomorphologic patterns in exogenic infantile copper intoxication of the liver

Pathology Research and Practice

Volumn 194, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 377-384

  Muller Hocker J ^a,d   Summer, K H ^b   Schramel, P ^b   Rodeck, B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c Medizinische Hochschule

^d Institut fur Pathologie   (Germany)

Author keywords

Exogenic copper intoxication in infancy; Indian childhood cirrhosis; Liver morphology

Indexed keywords

COPPER; PENICILLAMINE; FRESH WATER;

ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEAVY METAL POISONING; HUMAN; INDIAN CHILDHOOD CIRRHOSIS; INFANT; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER NECROSIS; LIVER TOXICITY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MALLORY BODY; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GERMANY; PATHOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROGNOSIS; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER POLLUTION;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COPPER; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FRESH WATER; GERMANY; HUMANS; INFANT; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; PROGNOSIS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL;

EID: 0031855205     PISSN: 03440338     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0344-0338(98)80027-7     Document Type: Article

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