Is AFP a new reliable marker of liver regeneration in acute hepatic failure?

Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 681-682

  Takikawa, Yasuhiro ^a   Suzuki, Kazuyuki ^a  

^a IWATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; BILIRUBIN; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 5;

BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE COURSE; EDITORIAL; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; LIVER CARCINOGENESIS; LIVER CARCINOMA; LIVER CELL; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER INJURY; LIVER REGENERATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTHROMBIN TIME; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; ACUTE DISEASE; BLOOD; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; MORTALITY; NOTE; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING;

ACUTE DISEASE; ALPHA-FETOPROTEINS; BILIRUBIN; HUMANS; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER FUNCTION TESTS; LIVER REGENERATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 0036696841     PISSN: 09441174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s005350200111     Document Type: Editorial

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