Over-expression of glutamine synthase in focal nodular hyperplasia (part 1): Early stages in the formation support the hypothesis of a focal hyper-arterialisation with venous (portal and hepatic) and biliary damage

Comparative Hepatology

Volumn 7, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Bioulac Sage, Paulette ^a,b   Laumonier, Hervé ^c   Cubel, Gaëlle ^b   Saric, Jean ^c   Balabaud, Charles ^b,c  

^a HÔPITAL PELLEGRIN   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^c HÔPITAL SAINT ANDRÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT; ARTERY DISEASE; ARTICLE; BILIARY TRACT DISEASE; CASE REPORT; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HEPATIC VEIN; HEPATOBILIARY DISEASE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER NODULE; LIVER RESECTION; NODULAR HYPERPLASIA; PATHOGENESIS; PORTAL VEIN; SCAR FORMATION; VEIN INJURY;

EID: 42349100740     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14765926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-5926-7-2     Document Type: Article

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