We describe four patients with features overlapping those of primary biliary cirrhosis and autoimmune chronic active hepatitis. Three were female and one was male; only one was symptomatic. Serum biochemical study showed increases in alkaline phosphatase and alpha-glutamyltranspeptidase levels. Mark
Subdivisions of idiopathic autoimmune chronic active hepatitis
โ Scribed by Willis C. Maddrey
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1987
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 567 KB
- Volume
- 7
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0270-9139
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