Autoimmune hepatitis in children

Current Gastroenterology Reports

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 225-230

  Squires Jr , Robert H ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOTRANSFERASE; AUTOANTIBODY; AZATHIOPRINE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CORTICOSTEROID; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; LIVER ANTIGEN; MICROSOME ANTIBODY; MITOCHONDRION ANTIBODY; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PARACETAMOL; PREDNISONE; PROTEIN ANTIBODY; SMOOTH MUSCLE ANTIBODY; TACROLIMUS; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE;

AGE; ALLOGRAFT; AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE MARKER; DISEASE MODEL; HEPATITIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LIVER CELL DAMAGE; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS; BLOOD; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS;

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; AUTOANTIBODIES; CHILD; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HEPATITIS, AUTOIMMUNE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS;

EID: 4544299509     PISSN: 15228037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11894-004-0012-7     Document Type: Review

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