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Etiology and prognosis of cryptogenic liver cirrhosis: possible contribution of hepatitis B virus.
Journal of medicine - 1 Jan 1997
Watanabe A, Aiba N, Harada R, Miyabayashi C, Entani A, Wakabayashi H, Nishimori H, Kuwabara Y
Abstract excerpt
Three female patients without type B or type C viral hepatitis, alcoholic, metabolic or autoimmune liver disease, were selected from 250 cases with histologically proven liver cirrhosis (M:F = 183:67). All three cases showed at least one positive aspect among three parameters of serum anti-HBc (RPHA, x1), HBV-DNA (gene S, nested PCR) and liver HBs and/or pre-S2 antigen (immunoperoxidase methods). Two cases may...
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