HEPATIC CANCER AND CIRRHOSIS

Hepatic Cirrhosis

TIhC 0CCLPTen1CC inI h1o0Spitall Within a conmparatively shiort space of time of touIr unuISula.l examllples of cirrhosis of tihe li\-er in-younil-chil(lren has le(d us to Iake this comlnlLI1liunictionl. Disorders of tihe liver in chil(lhoo(l ha\ve iii recent N'ears not attracted imiuchi attentioni in tihis country, and we feel that tlhe mere ventilation of the suLb)ject, thIough,0LI we mXVn ha...

[Hepatic cirrhosis].

Hepatic Cirrhosis

Hepatic osteodystrophy and liver cirrhosis.

AIM To investigate the correlation between hepatic osteodystrophy and osteoporosis in patients with liver cirrhosis. METHODS Bone mineral density of the patients (n = 55) and that of the control group (n = 30) were measured by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry. All the women in the study were premenopausal. Deoxypyridinoline, pyridinoline and urinary Ca(2+) were measured as bone destruction ma...

Familial hepatic cirrhosis.

Interest has been revived in the aetiology of hepatic fibrosis in infants by the recent communications of Stokes, Berk, Malamut, Drake, Barondess, Bashe, Wolman, Farquhar, Bevan, Drummond, Maycock, Capps and Bennett (1954) and Dible, Hunt, Pugh, Steingold and Wood (1954). Dible et al. showed that hepatitis can occur during intra-uterine life with fatal results in the neonatal period, or perhaps...