Efforts at making the diagnosis of acute-onset autoimmune hepatitis

Hepatology

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 371-372

  Fujiwara, Keiichi ^a   Yasui, Shin ^a   Yokosuka, Osamu ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE LIVER FAILURE; AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LETTER; LIVER NECROSIS; LIVER REGENERATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; BIOPSY; HEPATITIS, AUTOIMMUNE; HUMANS; JAPAN; LIVER; LIVER FAILURE, ACUTE;

EID: 79959560821     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: 15273350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.24331     Document Type: Letter

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