Biliary atresia screening: Why, when, and how?

Pediatrics

Volumn 123, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Sokol, Ronald J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID;

AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BILE DUCT ATRESIA; BILIARY TRACT DRAINAGE; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; EXTRAHEPATIC BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; FECES ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA; JAUNDICE; JEJUNUM; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MORBIDITY; NOTE; PORTOENTEROSTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING; SURVIVAL RATE;

BILIARY ATRESIA; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; NEONATAL SCREENING; PORTOENTEROSTOMY, HEPATIC;

EID: 66049104658     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2008-3108     Document Type: Note

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