Clinical course of alcoholic liver cirrhosis: A Danish population-based cohort study

Hepatology

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1675-1682

  Jepsen, Peter ^a   Ott, Peter ^a   Andersen, Per Kragh ^b   Sørensen, Henrik Toft ^a   Vilstrup, Hendrik ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; ARTICLE; ASCITES; BLEEDING; CHRONOLOGY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASCITES; COHORT STUDIES; DENMARK; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, ALCOHOLIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77951485993     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: 15273350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.23500     Document Type: Article

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