Serum globulin levels and intensity of hepatic fibrosis in patients with mansonic schistosomiasis;Níveis séricos de globulinas e a intensidade da fibrose hepática em pacientes com esquistossomose mansônica

Arquivos de Gastroenterologia

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 194-198

  Correia, Henrique S T ^a   Domingues, Ana Lucia C ^a   Lopes, Edmundo P A ^a   Morais, Clarice N L ^a   Sarteschi, Camila ^a   Moura, Izolda M F ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Immunoglobulin G; Liver cirrhosis; Schistossomiasis mansoni; Serum globulins

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; SERUM GLOBULIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; LIVER FIBROSIS; MALE; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI; TURBIDIMETRY;

ADULT; AGED; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER DISEASES, PARASITIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHELOMETRY AND TURBIDIMETRY; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI; SERUM GLOBULINS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70449641480     PISSN: 00042803     EISSN: 16784219     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0004-28032009000300010     Document Type: Article

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