Natural course of progression of liver fibrosis in Japanese patients with chronic liver disease type C – a study of 527 patients at one establishment
- 1 July 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Viral Hepatitis
- Vol. 7 (4) , 268-275
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2893.2000.00235.x
Abstract
Patients with chronic hepatitis C infection show a gradual progression of fibrosis to liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). We studied whether the progression of liver fibrosis differed...Keywords
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