A scoring system for primary biliary cirrhosis and its application for variant forms of autoimmune liver disease

Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 52-59

  Yamamoto, Kazuhide ^a   Terada, Ryo ^a   Okamoto, Ryoichi ^a   Hiasa, Youichi ^b   Abe, Masanori ^b   Onji, Morikazu ^b   Tsuji, Takao ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b EHIME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autoimmune cholangitis; Autoimmune hepatitis; Overlap syndrome; Primary biliary cirrhosis; Scoring system

Indexed keywords

ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY; MITOCHONDRION ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CHOLANGITIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT CODING; PLOTS AND CURVES; PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM;

AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; CHOLANGITIS; FEMALE; HEPATITIS, AUTOIMMUNE; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, BILIARY; MALE;

EID: 0037288836     PISSN: 09441174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s005350300006     Document Type: Article

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