Congenital hepatic fibrosis in Jamaican children.
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Congenital hepatic fibrosis in Jamaican children.
In 1961, Kerr, Harrison, Sherlock, and Walker described a series of children, all but one under 10 years ofage, whose main features were hepatosplenomegaly or bleeding oesophageal varices. They reviewed the published material fully, and differentiated their cases from 'juvenile cirrhosis' following neonatal hepatitis, blood group incompatibility, Wilson's disease, and fibrocystic disease of the...
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Disease in Childhood
سال: 1967
ISSN: 0003-9888,1468-2044
DOI: 10.1136/adc.42.224.379