Arsenic and liver disease

Journal of the Indian Medical Association

Volumn 99, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 311-320

  Guha Mazumder, D N ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF POST GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Liver biopsy; Liver disease; Non cirrhotic portal fibrosis

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; DRINKING WATER; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LIVER HISTOLOGY; LIVER TOXICITY; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; WATER CONTAMINATION;

EID: 0034867271     PISSN: 00195847     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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