Two unusual cases with Wilson's disease: Hepatoma and fulminant hepatitis treated with plasma exchange

Journal of the National Medical Association

Volumn 98, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1989-1991

  Aydinli, Musa ^a,b   Harmanci, Ozgur ^a,b   Ersoy, Osman ^a,b   Iskit, Arzu T ^a,b   Ozcebe, Osman ^a,b   Abbasoglu, Osman ^a,b   Bayraktar, Yusuf ^a,b  

^a Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine ^*

^b HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Hepatocellular carcinoma; Plasma exchange; Wilson's disease

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; PENICILLAMINE; ZINC SULFATE;

ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; FEMALE; HEPATITIS; HEPATOBILIARY SCINTISCANNING; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLENOMEGALY; WILSON DISEASE;

ADULT; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; FEMALE; HEPATOLENTICULAR DEGENERATION; HUMANS; LIVER FAILURE, ACUTE; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PLASMA EXCHANGE;

EID: 33845631499     PISSN: 00279684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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