Two different clinical subsets of lupus hepatitis exist. Mimicking primary autoimmune liver diseases or part of their spectrum?

Lupus

Volumn 20, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 1450-1451

  Piga, M ^a   Vacca, A ^a   Porru, G ^a   Garau, P ^a   Cauli, A ^a   Mathieu, A ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF RADIOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; RO ANTIBODY; STEROID; URSODEOXYCHOLIC ACID;

ADULT; AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS; CHOLESTASIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE COURSE; HEPATITIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LETTER; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LUPUS HEPATITIS; PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; HEPATITIS, AUTOIMMUNE; HUMANS; LIVER DISEASES; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 81555220094     PISSN: 09612033     EISSN: 14770962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0961203311411352     Document Type: Letter

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