Alcoholic liver disease: Treatment strategies for the potentially reversible stages

Postgraduate Medicine

Volumn 103, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 261-275

  Hill, Daniell B ^a   Kugelmas, Marcelo ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLCHICINE; CORTICOSTEROID;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; ALCOHOL LIVER DISEASE; ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL; ASCITES; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FATTY LIVER; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW;

EID: 0031971329     PISSN: 00325481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3810/pgm.1998.04.462     Document Type: Review

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