Muscle and Mortality in Cirrhosis

Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 100-102

  Kachaamy, Toufic ^a   Bajaj, Jasmohan S ^a   Heuman, Douglas M ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ALCOHOLISM; APPETITE DISORDER; BODY FAT; CACHEXIA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; END STAGE LIVER DISEASE; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MORTALITY; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE MASS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; SARCOPENIA;

EID: 84856047667     PISSN: 15423565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cgh.2011.11.002     Document Type: Editorial

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