Acute liver failure: A message found under the skin

Postgraduate Medical Journal

Volumn 81, Issue 954, 2005, Pages 269-270

  Meier, M ^a   Woywodt, A ^a   Hoeper, M M ^a   Schneider, A ^a   Manns, M P ^a   Strassburg, C P ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALCOHOL; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN; DISULFIRAM; GLUTAMATE DEHYDROGENASE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; LACTIC ACID;

ABDOMINAL DISEASE; ADULT; ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVEL; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOLISM; ANAMNESIS; ANURIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FATIGUE; GLUTEUS MAXIMUS MUSCLE; HEMODIALYSIS; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HEPATITIS; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; IMPLANT; JAUNDICE; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIVER FAILURE; MALE; VOMITING;

ADULT; ALCOHOL DETERRENTS; ALCOHOLISM; DISULFIRAM; DRUG IMPLANTS; ETHANOL; HUMANS; LIVER DISEASES, ALCOHOLIC; LIVER FAILURE, ACUTE; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING;

EID: 17444432298     PISSN: 00325473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.2004.023382     Document Type: Article

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