Prolonged Neonatal Jaundice in Cystic Fibrosis
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Prolonged neonatal jaundice in cystic fibrosis.
an histologically normal liver at necropsy. The two survivors were jaundiced for 6 months and 5 weeks respectively, before making a clinical recovery, and in both liver biopsy at the height of the jaundice showed bile stasis. Meconium ileus was present in half of all recorded cases of cystic fibrosis with prolonged neonatal jaundice. Jaundice is probably due to extrahepatic biliary obstruction ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Disease in Childhood
سال: 1971
ISSN: 0003-9888,1468-2044
DOI: 10.1136/adc.46.250.805