Late nonalcoholic fatty liver disease with cirrhosis: A pathologic case of lost or mistaken identity

Seminars in Liver Disease

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 92-98

  Lefkowitch, Jay H ^a   Morawski, John L ^b  

^a Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

^b Division of Orthopaedic Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

cryptogenic cirrhosis; diabetes; glutamine synthetase; Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease; nonalcoholic steatohepatitis; obesity

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALBUMIN; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CYTOKERATIN 7; GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BODY MASS; CASE REPORT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ECHOGRAPHY; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LAPAROSCOPY; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; MALE; NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; FATTY LIVER; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; OBESITY;

EID: 84857983523     PISSN: 02728087     EISSN: 10988971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0032-1306429     Document Type: Article

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