Hypervitaminosis A unmasked by acute viral hepatitis
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Acute Viral Hepatitis
Acute viral hepatitis is a term that is generally given to the disease condition attributed to a group of viruses that have the propensity to infect the liver and cause necroinflammation. Although these hepatotropic viruses share a common clinical presentation, they belong to different virus families, have different modes of transmission, and differ in their propensity to lead to chronic infect...
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عنوان ژورنال: Gastroenterology
سال: 1982
ISSN: 0016-5085
DOI: 10.1016/0016-5085(82)90133-0