Liver transplantation: Treatment of choice for hepatic and neurological manifestation of Wilson's disease

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 217-224

  Schumacher, Guido ^a   Platz, Klaus P ^a   Mueller, Andrea R ^a   Neuhaus, Ruth ^a   Steinmüller, Thomas ^a   Bechstein, Wolf O ^a   Becker, Michael ^a   Luck, Werner ^a   Schuelke, Markus ^a   Neuhaus, Peter ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Indication for liver transplantation; Liver transplantation; Neurological manifestation; Wilson's disease

Indexed keywords

PENICILLAMINE; ZINC;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; CASE REPORT; DYSARTHRIA; DYSPHAGIA; DYSTONIA; FEMALE; HANDWRITING; HUMAN; HYPERSALIVATION; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREMOR; WILSON DISEASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANEMIA, HEMOLYTIC; ATAXIA; CHELATING AGENTS; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; DYSARTHRIA; DYSTONIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HANDWRITING; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HEPATOLENTICULAR DEGENERATION; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FAILURE, ACUTE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MOVEMENT DISORDERS; PENICILLAMINE; SIALORRHEA; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREMOR; ZINC;

EID: 8244253685     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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