## Key Points 1. The etiology of acute liver failure in children differs from that in adults, with metabolic conditions being commoner in Europe and North America and hepatitis A being the commonest cause in Asia and South America. 2. Encephalopathy usually is a late feature and is not essential fo
Mammillary body atrophy in acute liver failure and acute-on-chronic liver failure of nonalcoholic etiology
β Scribed by Pranav Kumar Mandal; Santosh Kumar Yadav; Vivek Anand Saraswat; Jitesh Kumar Singh; Pooja Upreti; Rajendra Singh; Ram Kishore Singh Rathore; Rakesh Kumar Gupta
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 180 KB
- Volume
- 24
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0885-7490
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