PMID: 6413379Oct 1, 1983Paper

The spectrum of chronic active liver disease

Hospital Practice
M M Kaplan

Abstract

Much progress has been made in the classification of chronic hepatitis syndromes, based on correlation of specific histologic features with progressive liver destruction. Four etiologic subtypes have been defined--drug-induced, hepatitis B, non-A, non-B hepatitis, and autoimmune hepatitis. The last paradoxically is least understood etiologically and pathophysiologically but the most amenable to specific therapy.

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Jan 18, 1979·The New England Journal of Medicine·S KrugmanF Deinhardt

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