Smoking Is Associated with Histological Severity in Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis

Hepatology

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1522-1523

  Tsochatzis, Emmanuel A ^a   Papatheodoridis, George V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOTE; PATHOLOGY; SMOKING;

ADULT; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SMOKING;

EID: 77957970929     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: 15273350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.23751     Document Type: Letter

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