Is hepatocellular carcinoma part of the natural history of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis? [4]

Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 88-89

  Anagnostopoulos, George K ^b   Arvanitidis, Dimitrios ^b   Tsiakos, Stavros ^b   Margantinis, George ^b   Grigoriadis, Kyriakos ^a   Kostopoulos, Panagiotis ^b  

^a IASO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; INSULIN;

ADULT; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BODY MASS; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; DISEASE COURSE; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INSULIN RESISTANCE; LETTER; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0038613571     PISSN: 01920790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004836-200307000-00025     Document Type: Letter

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