Hepatitis C virus and lichen planus: The real association

Hepatitis Monthly

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 161-164

  Mahboobi, Nima ^a   Agha Hosseini, Farzaneh ^a   Lankarani, Kamran Bagheri ^b  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; VIRUS RNA;

CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDITORIAL; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LICHEN PLANUS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MOUTH HYGIENE; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS LOAD;

EID: 77954872638     PISSN: 1735143X     EISSN: 17353408     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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