Stool color card screening for early detection of biliary atresia and long-term native liver survival: A 19-year cohort study in Japan

Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 166, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 897-902.e1

  Gu, Yan Hong ^a,b   Yokoyama, Koji ^c   Mizuta, Koichi ^c   Tsuchioka, Takashi ^d   Kudo, Toyoichiro ^e   Sasaki, Hideyuki ^f   Nio, Masaki ^f   Tang, Julian ^e   Ohkubo, Takayoshi ^a   Matsui, Akira ^e  

^a TEIKYO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TEIKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d DOKKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHILD HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT   (Japan)

^f TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BILE DUCT ATRESIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM DISEASE ASSESSMENT; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INCIDENTAL FINDING; INFANT; JAPAN; JAUNDICE; LAPAROTOMY; LIVE BIRTH; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MASS SCREENING; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; PEROPERATIVE CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; PORTOENTEROSTOMY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STOOL COLOR CARD SCREENING; SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL RATE; BILIARY ATRESIA; CHEMISTRY; CLINICAL TRIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FECES; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FORECASTING; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRENDS;

BILIARY ATRESIA; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FECES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FORECASTING; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; JAPAN; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MASS SCREENING; PORTOENTEROSTOMY, HEPATIC; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84933279266     PISSN: 00223476     EISSN: 10976833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2014.12.063     Document Type: Article

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