Hepatitis virus-related and ethanol-induced chronic liver disease with or without cryoglobulins - Is there a difference concerning clinical or laboratory manifestation?

Infection

Volumn 27, Issue 4-5, 1999, Pages 248-251

  Breitschwerdt, B ^a   Goeser, T ^b   Tissot, J D ^c   Trendelenburg, M ^d   Sis Kluzik, J M ^a   Andrassy, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c Red Cross Transfusion Center   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; RHEUMATOID FACTOR;

ADULT; ALCOHOL LIVER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CRYOGLOBULINEMIA; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; KIDNEY DISEASE; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MALE; PREVALENCE; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; VIRUS HEPATITIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIOPSY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMORBIDITY; CRYOGLOBULINEMIA; CRYOGLOBULINS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEPATITIS B, CHRONIC; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, ALCOHOLIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 0032828922     PISSN: 03008126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s150100050021     Document Type: Article

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