Primary biliary cirrhosis: When and why does the disease develop?

Digestive and Liver Disease

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 272-275

  Floreani, A ^a   Ostuni, P A ^a   Ferrara, F ^a   Guido, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

AMA; Primary biliary cirrhosis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID DERIVATIVE; PREDNISONE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTHRALGIA; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA INFECTION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; MENSTRUATION DISORDER; PAPULE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PHARYNGITIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; PRURITUS; RAYNAUD PHENOMENON; SKIN DEFECT; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ADOLESCENT; AUTOANTIBODIES; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CHOLAGOGUES AND CHOLERETICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, BILIARY; MITOCHONDRIA; URSODEOXYCHOLIC ACID;

EID: 33748496662     PISSN: 15908658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dld.2006.03.001     Document Type: Article

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