Two cases of asymptomatic primary biliary cirrhosis with ascites

Japanese Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 100, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1400-1404

  Hiasa, Yoichi ^b   Tokumoto, Yoshio ^b   Furukawa, Shinya ^b   Takeshita, Eiji ^b   Matsui, Hidetaka ^a   Michitaka, Kojiro ^a   Horiike, Norio ^b   Onji, Morikazu ^a  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

URSODEOXYCHOLIC ACID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASCITES; CASE REPORT; CHOLANGITIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; PROGNOSIS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASCITES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, BILIARY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0346433663     PISSN: 04466586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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