Liver transplantation in precirrhotic biliary tract disease: Portal hypertension is frequently associated with nodular regenerative hyperplasia and obliterative portal venopathy

American Journal of Surgical Pathology

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1454-1461

  Abraham, Susan C ^a   Kamath, Patrick S ^a   Eghtesad, Bijan ^b   Demetris, Anthony J ^c   Krasinskas, Alyssa M ^c  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Portal hypertension; Primary biliary cirrhosis; Primary sclerosing cholangitis; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; CHOLANGITIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CENTER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER GRAFT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; NODULAR HYPERPLASIA; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SCHOOL CHILD; SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS; VEIN DISEASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BILIARY TRACT DISEASES; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERPLASIA; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PORTAL VEIN; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 33750472701     PISSN: 01475185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.pas.0000213286.65907.ea     Document Type: Review

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