PHES: One label, different goods?!

Journal of Hepatology

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 308-312

  Weissenborn, Karin ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN ATROPHY; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EDITORIAL; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRIC HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY SCORE; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOMOTOR ACTIVITY;

ATTENTION; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 48449097127     PISSN: 01688278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhep.2008.06.023     Document Type: Editorial

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