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LIVER DISEASE AND ALCOHOL: FATTY LIVER, ALCOHOLIC HEPATITIS, CIRRHOSIS, AND THEIR INTERRELATIONSHIPS*

1975; Wiley; Volume: 252; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1111/j.1749-6632.1975.tb19145.x

1749-6632

Charles S. Lieber,

Liver Disease and Transplantation

Annals of the New York Academy of SciencesVolume 252, Issue 1 p. 63-84 LIVER DISEASE AND ALCOHOL: FATTY LIVER, ALCOHOLIC HEPATITIS, CIRRHOSIS, AND THEIR INTERRELATIONSHIPS* Charles S. Lieber, Charles S. Lieber Section and Laboratory of Liver Disease and Nutrition Veterans Administration Hospital Bronx, New York 10468 Department of Medicine Mount Sinai School of Medicine of the City University of New York New York, New York 10029Search for more papers by this author Charles S. Lieber, Charles S. Lieber Section and Laboratory of Liver Disease and Nutrition Veterans Administration Hospital Bronx, New York 10468 Department of Medicine Mount Sinai School of Medicine of the City University of New York New York, New York 10029Search for more papers by this author First published: April 1975 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-6632.1975.tb19145.xCitations: 32 * Work supported in part by grants from the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and the National Institute of Arthritis, Metabolism, and Digestive Diseases, and projects of the Veterans Administration. 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