Fatty liver in children

Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management

Volumn 5, Issue , 2009, Pages 371-374

  Rafeey, Mandana ^a   Mortazavi, Fakhrossadat ^b   Mogaddasi, Nafiseh ^b   Robabeh, Ghergherehchi ^b   Ghaffari, Shamsi ^b   Hasani, Alka ^c  

^a Liver and Gastrointestinal Research Center   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TABRIZ   (Iran)

^c Research Center of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine   (Iran)

Author keywords

Children; Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease; Obesity; Steatohepatitis

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959583540     PISSN: 11766336     EISSN: 1178203X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/tcrm.s4467     Document Type: Article

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