Attention: Minimal hepatic encephalopathy and road accidents

Hepatology

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 985-987

  Amodio, Piero ^a   Montagnese, Sara ^a   Merkel, Carlo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANADA; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DRIVING ABILITY; EDITORIAL; FRANCE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; INJURY; ITALY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER PERFUSION; MINIMAL HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; MORTALITY; POLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPAIN; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; GASTROINTESTINAL AGENTS; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMANS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84859142175     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: 15273350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.25583     Document Type: Editorial

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