Non-cirrhotic portal fibrosis: One disease with many names? An analysis from morphological study of native explant livers with end stage chronic liver disease

Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 64, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 592-598

  Nayak, Nabeen C ^a   Jain, Deepali ^a   Saigal, Sanjiv ^a   Soin, Arvind S ^a  

^a SIR GANGA RAM HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; EXPLANT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER CELL; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER PARENCHYMA; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; PORTAL VEIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBUS;

ADULT; END STAGE LIVER DISEASE; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 79959350080     PISSN: 00219746     EISSN: 14724146     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jcp.2010.087395     Document Type: Article

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