BACKGROUND. Interferon (IFN) has been reported to have beneficial long term effects that reduce the occurrence of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), even in patients who do not have complete responses to IFN. The authors evaluated the effect of retreatment with IFN-β£ on the long term prognoses of those
Retreatment of patients with chronic hepatitis C
β Scribed by Mitchell L. Shiffman
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 735 KB
- Volume
- 36
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0270-9139
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