Primary sclerosing cholangitis: a clinical update
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Update on primary sclerosing cholangitis.
Early studies in primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) were concerned with disease characterization, and were followed by epidemiological studies of PSC and clinical subsets of PSC as well as a large number of treatment trials. Recently, the molecular pathogenesis and the practical handling of the patients have received increasing attention. In the present review we aim to give an update on the ...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Medical Bulletin
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0007-1420,1471-8391
DOI: 10.1093/bmb/ldv019