A 12-Year-Old Boy with Chronic Hepatitis C Cirrhosis and Posttransplantation Hepatitis

Arief Suriawinata; Richard Rosencrantz; Benjamin Shneider; Sukru Emre; Swan N. Thung

doi:10.1055/s-2001-19039

Seminars in Liver Disease, Table of Contents

Semin Liver Dis 2001; 21(4): 573-578
DOI: 10.1055/s-2001-19039

DIAGNOSTIC PROBLEMS IN HEPATOLOGY

A 12-Year-Old Boy with Chronic Hepatitis C Cirrhosis and Posttransplantation Hepatitis

Arief Suriawinata¹ , Richard Rosencrantz² , Benjamin Shneider² , Sukru Emre³ , Swan N. Thung⁴

¹Department of Pathology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York
²Department of Pediatrics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York
³Department of Pathology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York
⁴the Recanati-Miller Transplant Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York

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