Serum thrombopoietin in chronic liver disease: Relation to severity of the disease and spleen size

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 49, Issue 47, 2002, Pages 1382-1385

  Freni, Maria Antonietta ^a   Spadaro, Aldo ^a   Ajello, Antonino ^a   Barbaro, Elena ^a   Scaffidi, Maria ^a   Alessi, Nunziata ^a   Resta, Maria Letizia ^a   Ferraù, Oscar ^a  

^a NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Liver disease; Thrombopoietin

Indexed keywords

THROMBOPOIETIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SPLEEN SIZE; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

AGED; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLATELET COUNT; SPLEEN; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THROMBOPOIETIN;

EID: 0036376859     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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