Differential diagnosis of neonatal cholestasis: clinical and laboratory parameters
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Differential diagnosis of neonatal cholestasis: clinical and laboratory parameters.
OBJECTIVE To evaluate if clinical and laboratory parameters could assist in the differential diagnosis of intra and extra-hepatic neonatal cholestasis (NC). METHODS Retrospective study of NC patients admitted at the Pediatric Hepatology Outpatient Clinic of the teaching hospital of Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil, between December 1980 and March 2005. The approac...
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عنوان ژورنال: Jornal de Pediatria
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0021-7557
DOI: 10.2223/jped.1970