Cholestatic jaundice in infancy: struggling with many old and new phenotypes
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Recurrent jaundice due to intrahepatic cholestasis is reported most often in adults. Some varieties are familial and are associated with failure of excretion of conjugated bilirubin by the liver cell. The original descriptions of these types given by Rotor, Manahan, and Florentin (1948) and Dubin and Johnson (1954) concerned patients with a benign recurrent jaundice. The diseases described by t...
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عنوان ژورنال: Italian Journal of Pediatrics
سال: 2019
ISSN: 1824-7288
DOI: 10.1186/s13052-019-0679-x