Syncytial giant-cell hepatitis due to autoimmune hepatitis type II (LKM1 +) presenting as subfulminant hepatitis

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 799-801

  Ben Ari, Ziv ^d   Broida, Effrat ^b   Monselise, Yehudit ^a   Kazatsker, Anna ^a   Baruch, Jacob ^c   Pappo, Orit ^a   Skappa, Eitan ^b   Tur Kaspa, Ran ^a  

^a RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b ASSAF HAROFEH MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^d Rambam Hospital ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS; CASE REPORT; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; GIANT CELL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LIVER CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; VIRUS INFECTION;

ADULT; AUTOANTIBODIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; GIANT CELLS; HEPATITIS, AUTOIMMUNE; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER FUNCTION TESTS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0034001089     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9270(99)00922-3     Document Type: Article

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