DISEASES OF THE LIVER
- 1 August 1927
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of internal medicine (1908)
- Vol. 40 (2) , 159-181
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archinte.1927.00130080033004
Abstract
During the last three years we have been engaged in an attempt to evaluate the clinical usefulness of certain tests for hepatic function. In previous communications we have reported the results of various aspects of this study.1At present we wish to report on the functional changes observed in patients with cirrhosis of the liver. Of a group of more than 100 cases originally diagnosed cirrhosis of the liver, the history and physical observations were characteristic and the diagnosis apparently unmistakable in the fifty cases selected for this report. In the majority the diagnosis was confirmed by examination of the liver at operation or necropsy. Syphilis was excluded in these cases by the history and physical examination and by serologic tests. Observations made in the cases of cirrhosis associated with splenic anemia (so-called Banti's disease) and with hemolytic jaundice have previously been reported. The presentation of this material has provedThis publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: