Recently, the autoimmune hepatitis (AIH)/primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) overlap syndrome has been reported increasingly. In this syndrome, patients present with features of both AIH and PSC. It has been suggested that the 2 diseases may be sequential in their occurrence, whereby patients have
Hepatic eosinophilic infiltration in primary sclerosing cholangitis
โ Scribed by Marek Hartleb; Maciej Kajor; Roman Kaczor; Andrzej Nowak
- Publisher
- Springer Japan
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 63 KB
- Volume
- 33
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0944-1174
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