Article
Hepatocellular carcinoma in Sweden: its association with viral hepatitis, especially with hepatitis C viral genotypes.
Scandinavian journal of infectious diseases - 1 Jan 2000
Widell A, Verbaan H, Wejstål R, Kaczynski J, Kidd-Ljunggren K, Wallerstedt S
Abstract excerpt
Viral markers of chronic hepatitis were tested for in 95 frozen serum samples from 299 patients from Malmö, Sweden, with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), diagnosed between 1977 and 1994. Hepatitis B analysis included anti-HBc, HBsAg and, if anti-HBc positive, HBV DNA. Hepatitis C infection analysis included anti-HCV screening, RIBA, HCV RNA and HCV genotyping. HCV genotyping was also carried out in 9 HCV-viraemic...
Topics
- Blood Donors
- Carcinoma, Hepatocellular
- Emigration and Immigration
- Genotype
- Hepacivirus
- Hepatitis B Antibodies
- Hepatitis B Core Antigens
- Hepatitis B Surface Antigens
- Hepatitis B virus
- Hepatitis B, Chronic
- Hepatitis C, Chronic
- Humans
- Liver Neoplasms