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Boris Dubin

Cholescintigraphy in Dubin-Johnson syndrome.

Hereditary or familial hiperbilirubinemia comprises a group of syndromes (Dubin-Johnson’s, Rotor’s, hepatic storage disease) in which hyperbilirubinemia, predominantly unconjugated or conjugated, occurs as an isolated biochemical abnormality without evidence of either hepatocellular necrosis or cholestasis. We present a patient with Dubin-Johnson syndrome, one of the familial disorders associat...

Dubin-Johnson syndrome.

A young man presented with recurrent episodes of mild jaundice. Apart from conjugated hyperbilirubinemia, other liver function tests were always normal. Clinical suspicion of Dubin-Johnson syndrome was raised. Liver biopsy showed diffuse deposition of coarse granular dark brown pigment in hepatocytes. Dubin-Johnson syndrome is a benign condition, which results from a hereditary defect in biliar...

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