Liver involvement in turner syndrome
β Scribed by Dominique Roulot; Claude Degott; Olivier Chazouilleres; Laurent Castera; Frederic Oberti; Nicolas Carbonell; Said Benferhat; Paul Cales; Dominique Valla
- Book ID
- 118565495
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 114 KB
- Volume
- 36
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0168-8278
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Unexplained liver test abnormalities are frequent in patients with Turner's syndrome. This cohort study was performed to clarify the histopathologic features, causes, and long-term outcome of liver involvement in these patients. Thirty patients with persistently abnormal liver test results were foll
and attributed to the concurrence of cirrhosis and to abnormality of intrahepatic vascular development on a dysembryogenetic basis. Other hepatic abnormalities have been reported, including cholestasis in infancy [Gardner, 1974] and portal fibrosis [Calais et al., 1966]. Hepatic histology in a woma